Five Children Killed in Israeli Air Strike on Southern Lebanese Village
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Lebanese sources report that five children were killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in the village of Barish, southern Lebanon, as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalate.
Lebanon's state media confirmed that five children were killed when Israeli forces targeted a house in the southern village of Barish.
This strike comes as part of intensified air raids by Israel, which have spanned across a wider region in Lebanon in recent days.
A rocket hit an uninhabited mountainside east of the port city of Byblos, according to state media and local residents.
This area had not been previously struck in the ongoing months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah resistance movement.
Israel launched approximately 150 air raids across Lebanon on Monday, including an attack in the town of Ainata, where three people were wounded, as reported by Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).
Two of the injured required hospitalization, while one was treated at the emergency room, according to NNA.
Further strikes by Israeli jets targeted eastern and southern Lebanon, resulting in 17 injuries and one civilian death, Lebanese media reported.
In the eastern town of Bodai, a Lebanese shepherd was killed, and six others were wounded, including two family members, in another air strike.
Additionally, the Health Ministry confirmed that 11 more people were injured in a separate strike in the southern town of Aitaroun.
Meanwhile, Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, revealed a plan to establish a "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon, free of the local population.
Chikli's proposal, shared on social media, outlines the forcible removal of civilians from several Lebanese towns, including Kfarchouba, Khiam, Marjayoun, Qlayaa, Yohmor, and Taybeh.
He argued that Israel would be justified in taking control of the area, claiming Lebanon had failed to maintain sovereignty over the region.
The border village of Wazzani, where leaflets were dropped last week urging residents to leave, was also included in the proposed buffer zone.
Earlier, Hezbollah targeted the Rafael weapons manufacturing facility in Haifa in response to the regime’s recent mass terrorist attack in Lebanon.
In a statement released on Sunday, Hezbollah said that it had bombed the military industry complexes of the Rafael company, located in the Zevulun area north of Haifa, with dozens of Fadi 1, Fadi 2, and Katyusha rockets.
The resistance group noted that its operation was a show of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and their resistance, adding that it was also an “initial response to the brutal massacre committed by the Israeli enemy in various Lebanese regions” by the explosion of telecommunication devices.
Thousands of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkie radios belonging to Hezbollah members detonated across Lebanon in simultaneous blasts on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing 42 people and wounding almost 3,500 others.