Israeli airstrikes on several targets in southern Lebanon killed eight people, according to a toll released by the health ministry, AFP reports.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that a series of Israeli airstrikes had targeted more than 20 towns and villages in southern Lebanon.

“Six people were killed by an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kherbet Selm,” the health ministry reported. A second strike killed at least two people in Kfar Rumman near the city of Nabatiyeh, it added.