AT LEAST 17 people, including two infants, have been killed and another 20 injured in Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon over the past 48 hours as Israel continues daily violations of the US-brokered framework agreement.
Israeli warplanes struck a three-story residential building in the town of Kafr Rouman in the Nabatieh governorate just after midnight, destroying it.
Emergency teams recovered nine bodies, including those of two infants, from the rubble, while five people were injured.
Separately, an Israeli drone targeted a civilian vehicle in the same Lebanese town, killing two paramedics affiliated with the Islamic Risala Scout Association who were inside.
Israeli warplanes also carried out a series of strikes on Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Arabsalim areas, where a house was destroyed.
Moreover, Israeli warplanes destroyed a building in the town of Deir al-Zahrani. The Israeli army had earlier issued an evacuation order.
Lebanese Minister of State for Administrative Reform, Fadi Makki, has called upon the international community and freedom-loving peoples worldwide to take effective action aimed at ending Israel’s relentless aggression and violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty.
‘How long will this aggression against the south and its people continue? How long will Lebanon and its nation have to pay the price?’ Makki said, slamming the continued Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon.
He said that civilians, including women and children, are being massacred in various southern Lebanon towns and villages, including Mayfadoun, Ramadiyeh, Nabatieh and Arabsalim, and residential buildings as well as civilian infrastructure are being destroyed.
‘The height of the barbarity and vileness of the Israeli military was the strike on Salah Ghandour Hospital’ in the southern town of Bint Jbeil just a few days ago, Makki noted.
