Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese village killed one civilian and wounded two others on Wednesday, AFP quotes Lebanon’s state media as saying.

“Two civilians were wounded and a third killed in an enemy drone strike on a house in Khiam” about six kilometres (around four miles) from the border, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.

An AFP photographer in the area reported a series of strikes on Khiam, with one image showing smoke billowing from four positions in the village at once.Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said the army attacked a series of Hezbollah targets in the Khiam area.

“A sixth of all rocket launches from Lebanese territory since the start of fighting were launched from the vicinity of Khiam,” Adraee said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.

The NNA said Israel also struck a number of other sites in south Lebanon near the border on Wednesday, including a water pumping station in the Wazzani plain at the border.

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