Lebanon says 21 killed, including children, in Israeli air strikes

Lebanon says 21 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Tuesday in southern Lebanon. According to the country's health ministry and media, the strikes resulted in at least 21 deaths.

Twelve of the deaths, including three children and three women, occurred in a single attack in Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, according to the state-run National News Agency. The Lebanese health ministry said on Tuesday night that 10 people were killed and three others were wounded, including a child, in the strike on Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, in Tyre district. On Wednesday morning, the National News Agency reported that two more bodies had been recovered from the rubble of the home that was destroyed. It said the dead were 11 members of one family and a Syrian national. The health ministry said a further nine people were killed and 29 injured in Israeli air strikes on Nabatieh and Tyre districts. Two women were among four people who were killed in a strike in the town of Nabatieh, it added, while another strike in the nearby village of Kfar Sir killed five people. One Israeli soldier was killed on Tuesday as Hezbollah attacked forces occupying parts of southern Lebanon. The Israeli military has not commented, but previously said it was targeting the Iran-backed, Shia Islamist armed group Hezbollah. The BBC has contacted the Israeli military for comment.

Hezbollah said its fighters "clashed… with a force of the Israeli enemy army that tried to advance towards the vicinity of the town square of Haddatha", in Bint Jbeil district, and that an Israeli tank was destroyed, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported. Hezbollah also said it carried out other attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon as well as Iron Dome air defence platforms near the border in northern Israel, according