BEIRUT, Jul 19 (NNN-NNA) – Five people were killed and 18 others injured yesterday, in Israeli airstrikes targeting three villages in the central sector of the border area, in southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources said.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that, the casualties resulted from five Israeli air raids on the villages of Safad, Chaqra, and Majdal Selm, which destroyed seven homes and damaged 25 others.
They added that, several teams from the Civil Defence, Islamic Health Authority, and International Committee of the Red Cross rushed to the targeted areas, to transport the bodies and wounded to nearby hospitals in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese security sources said that, a Hezbollah military official named Habib Maatouq, who is from the southern city of Nabatieh, was killed during the air strikes.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced in statements that it launched an airstrike with a squadron of armed drones on the Filon base, the headquarters of the brigades of the 210th division and its warehouses in northern Israel.
Also, the Lebanese army monitored the launch of about 50 surface-to-surface missiles and several drones fired from Lebanon to northern Israel, according to Lebanese military sources.– NNN-NNA
