Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that at least 15 people were killed in Israeli strikes on two areas in the north of the country and one to the south of the capital, Al Jazeera reports.

The ministry said nine people were killed and 15 wounded in an “Israeli enemy strike” on the village of Maaysrah, located to the north of Beirut. The ministry also reported two people killed, four wounded and unidentified “body parts” recovered following an Israeli strike on Deir Bella, near the northern Lebanese town of Batroun.

Four people were also killed and 18 wounded in a strike on Barja, south of Beirut.

Israel also hit the southern city of Nabatieh, where eight people were reported wounded. Rescuers were assessing overnight the actual number of casualties from the attack and a massive fire that broke out after the air strike.

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