1 killed, 7 injured in Israeli airstrike on Lebanese town

BEIRUT, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — One person was killed and seven others were injured on Friday in an Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment in the town of Ahmadieh in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources.
The military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that an Israeli drone fired two air-to-ground missiles at a residential apartment in a two-story building at the western entrance of Ahmadieh, partially destroying the building. The attack resulted in one death and seven injuries, including four children.
The sources added that local health authorities had transferred the injured to a hospital in the Western Bekaa region.
The sources also said that Israeli warplanes and drones conducted 10 airstrikes on seven villages and towns in southern Lebanon on Friday afternoon, while Israeli artillery shelled 10 towns in the region.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced in separate statements that it attacked the Philon base, a base for the 210th Division of the Israeli Defense Forces, with drones and bombed the main air defense missile base of Israel’s Northern Command at the Berea barracks with Katyusha rockets.
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon. ■