Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said seven people including two women and three children killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday were not military targets, after Israel said it struck Hezbollah “infrastructure,” AFP reports.

“The seven martyrs of the Israeli strike on the village of Ansar are not ‘military infrastructure’ and the women and children who were killed are not military targets,” Salam said, adding that “Israel must halt this escalation”, which he said was “extremely dangerous and undermines efforts to consolidate stability in the south”.

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