AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Lebanon says three people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a densely populated neighborhood near the southern city of Sidon.
The health ministry said Sunday that an attack on Haret Saida “resulted in an initial death toll of three people killed and nine others injured.”
The ministry said the Israeli military issued no evacuation warning before the attack.
In the nearby town of Ghaziyeh, south of Sidon, another Israeli raid hit a building, where officials managed to rescue a child from beneath the rubble.
Further south, in the town of Khiam, the Lebanese Red Cross recovered five out of 21 bodies that have been trapped under the rubble for around one week, officials said.
Emergency teams had been previously unable to access the town, some six kilometers from the border, where Hezbollah fighters are battling Israeli ground forces.
The remaining dead bodies will be recovered on Monday, according to officials.
The Israeli military has made it incredibly difficult for emergency services to get into the town of Khiam and recover the bodies from under the rubble.
Officials say the town is under intense, constant shelling and airstrikes by the Israeli military.
Sidon has been struck multiple times in the past few days.
At least five people were killed and 13 wounded last Sunday in an Israeli strike on the southern city of Lebanon.
Israel invaded Lebanon on September 23. Ever since, the military forces have killed more than 1,930 people in the country, according to an AFP tally of health ministry figures. Health officials say the real toll may be higher due to gaps in the data.
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