Israeli Airstrikes Kill Two, Wound Several in Lebanon

Israeli forces launched a new wave of air attacks in Lebanon, killing at least two people and wounding several others.

An airstrike carried out by Israeli warplanes at dawn on a house in the town of al-Rafid in the Rashaya al-Wadi district killed one person and wounded another, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said, while an air attack that hit the town of Shahabiya killed and wounded several people.

An Israeli drone launched a raid on the road of Ain Baal in the town of Al-Housh in the Tyre district, killing one person, the NNA said.

The NNA said an overnight strike in the southern city of Tyre that targeted a site near Hiram Hospital caused “severe damage” to the facility in Aabbasiyyeh.

Hiram Hospital CEO Salman Aydibi told AFP that around 40 patients were in the facility when a warning to evacuate the area was issued, including seven in intensive care.

“We took the patients to a safer location,” he said, adding that none were harmed but some 30 staff sustained minor injuries.

Aydibi said an evaluation of the damage was ongoing and the hospital has remained operational, though the emergency department briefly closed. He said it was the third strike near the facility since the war erupted on March 2.

The NNA reported large explosions on Saturday in the towns of Yohmor al-Shaqif in Nabatieh and Taybeh in the Marjayoun district, both in southern Lebanon.

On Thursday, an Israeli attack near the Tebnine Hospital in southern Lebanon damaged all three floors of the building, including ‌the ‌emergency room, intensive care unit, surgical ward, and ambulances parked outside, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

Israel’s military issued three forced displacement warnings since Friday night via its Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee, for the southern Lebanese village of Burj Rahal and the areas of Tyre and Zqouq al-Mufdi.

The latest forced displacement order included the towns of Al-Nabatieh al-Tahta, Kafr Tibnit, Zibdine (Nabatieh), Arab Salim, Kafr Reman, Habboush, Blat (Marjayoun), Deir Qanun al-Nahr, Harouf, and Jibshit.

Hezbollah targeted two Iron Dome launchers on Saturday at the Biranit barrack, a military camp in northern Israel.

Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto, reporting from Tyre, southern Lebanon, at the edge of the 500-metre (550-yard) perimeter that Israel has designated as the danger zone, said: “There are ambulances here. There are also rescue teams and people who have fled their homes this evening following this forced [displacement] order.”

Many left in fear and panic, he said, seeing these orders as threats while being unsure of when they could return home.

“People are here with their families and their children,” Hitto said. “This is the kind of psychological terror that Israel is forcing people to live in, here in southern Lebanon.”