Individuals collect at a website that offered heavy equipment, the place a lot of autos had been destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, within the southern village of Msayleh, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025.
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BEIRUT — Israel carried out intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Saturday, killing one particular person, wounding seven and briefly reducing a freeway that hyperlinks Beirut with elements of south Lebanon, the Well being Ministry stated.
The pre-dawn airstrikes on the village of Msayleh struck a spot that offered heavy equipment, destroying a lot of autos.
A automobile carrying greens that occurred to be passing by on the time of the strikes was hit, killing one particular person and wounding one other, in response to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV.
The Well being Ministry later stated that the one slain was a Syrian citizen, whereas the wounded had been a Syrian nationwide and 6 Lebanese, together with two ladies.
The Israeli army stated it struck a spot the place equipment was saved for use to rebuild infrastructure for the militant Hezbollah group.
For the reason that 14-month Israel-Hezbollah warfare resulted in late November with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, Israel has carried out virtually each day airstrikes killing dozens of individuals. Israel accuses Hezbollah of making an attempt to rebuild its capabilities after the group suffered heavy losses through the warfare.
Earlier this month, the U.N. human rights chief, Volker Türk, known as for renewed efforts to convey a everlasting finish to hostilities in Lebanon following the warfare. He stated that till the tip of September, they’ve verified 103 civilians killed in Lebanon because the ceasefire.
The newest Israel-Hezbollah warfare killed greater than 4,000 individuals in Lebanon, together with lots of of civilians, and induced an estimated $11 billion price of destruction, in response to the World Financial institution. In Israel, 127 individuals died, together with 80 troopers.
The warfare began when Hezbollah started firing rockets throughout the border on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after a lethal Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel sparked the warfare in Gaza. Israel responded with shelling and airstrikes in Lebanon, and the 2 sides turned locked in an escalating battle that turned a full-blown warfare in late September 2024.
