6 killed as Israeli strikes hit S. Lebanon

Six people were killed and eight others wounded on Friday evening in two Israeli airstrikes on the town of Habboush in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh district, according to the Ministry of Public Health's Emergency Operations Center.



Preliminary reports indicate that the casualties include a child and a woman among both the dead and the wounded.



Israeli warplanes also struck the town of Majdal Selm and the valley between the town of Zawtar and the village of Deir Siriane, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA). There was no immediate information on casualties or damage in those areas.