Six bodies have been recovered, and three injured people rescued from the rubble of a residential building attacked by Israel in besieged southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reports.

The civil defence agency said in a statement: “Since yesterday evening and continuing until this morning […] personnel have been carrying out search and rescue operations in a residential building that was targeted in the town of Marwaniyah – Sidon district.

“These operations resulted in the recovery of the bodies of six martyrs and the rescue of three injured people who were taken to hospital to receive the necessary treatment.”

Rescue efforts continue to try to find any survivors under the rubble of buildings despite dangerous conditions on the ground, said the civil defence agency.