Around 10 people have been killed, including two children, and five were wounded by an Israeli strike on a residential building in Nabatieh city in southern Lebanon, Reuters quotes the state news agency NNA as saying.

The victims were all Syrian citizens, NNA said, adding that a final toll of the strike would be announced after DNA tests were conducted to determine the identity of the victims.

The Israeli military said the airstrike targeted a weapons depot used by Hezbollah gunmen.

Tensions have soared in the region in recent weeks, after a rocket strike blamed on Hezbollah killed 12 children and teens in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights. Israel responded with the killing of a top Hezbollah commander in the suburbs of Beirut.