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Two children and two medics among those killed, says Lebanon news agency
A Lebanese army soldier and rescuer at the site of an overnight Israel i air strike on the village of Kfar Rumman in southern Lebanon. Photograph: MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Imagestown early on Monday killed at least 11 people including two children and two medics, Lebanon’s state news agency said.
Israel has intensified its bombardment of south Lebanon in recent days despite a June ceasefire that was meant to halt fighting between the Israeli military and Lebanese armed group Hizbullah. At least seven people were killed in Israeli strikes on Sunday. Just after midnight, Israeli warplanes hit a residential building in the town of Kfar Rumman in southern Lebanon, killing nine people including two children, and wounding five more, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
A separate Israeli drone strike on a civilian vehicle in the town killed two medics inside the car, it said. António Guterres: ‘Superpowers need to understand things have changed’ The strikes on the town came without an online evacuation warning from the Israeli military. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to Reuters questions on the strikes, including whether it was aware of the presence of medics and children at the strike locations and why no evacuation warning was issued.
A spokesperson for the Israeli military issued a separate evacuation warning just after 2am local time for areas around a building in another town in southern Lebanon where it said it would strike Hizbullah facilities. Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed more than 4,300 people since Hizbullah launched rockets at Israel on March 2nd – two days after the start of US and Israeli strikes on Iran – triggering an Israeli air and ground offensive.
The ceasefire saw violence decrease dramatically, but Israeli troops occupying swathes of southern Lebanon have continued razing villages in the self-declared security zone. Israel’s military has continued carrying out strikes both within the zone and to its north, mostly without evacuation warnings. Lebanese president Joseph Aoun’s office called Israeli strikes on Sunday “a dangerous escalation” that targeted “purely civilian administrations and health centres”.
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