At least five people were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on a village located east of Beirut, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. A security source told AFP that the raid targeted a home inhabited by displaced persons.
The security source detailed that the strike targeted a home in the mountainous region of Aley, which is far from the border with Israel and rarely a target, noting that the home housed displaced individuals, including women and children.
This incident follows a fatal airstrike in northern Lebanon that killed eight people from a displaced family, according to the Health Ministry.
Israel periodically conducts violent airstrikes targeting towns and villages outside of Hezbollah strongholds, aiming at vehicles, individuals, or residential buildings. Several reports have linked these targets to Hezbollah.
Additionally, a series of Israeli airstrikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday morning, following the Israeli military's instructions to evacuate four neighborhoods, as reported by the official Lebanese National News Agency.