In recent days, Israel has intensified its airstrikes on the northeastern city of Baalbek and nearby villages, as well as different parts of southern Lebanon.
The death toll from Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip rose to 25, including five children, as more bodies were recovered, while officials said that 13 people were killed in airstrikes in Lebanon on Friday.
One of the strikes killed an 18-month-old and his 10-year-old sister — the children's mother was missing as of Friday while the father was killed by an Israeli airstrike four months ago, the family told The Associated Press at Aqsa hospital. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Friday that a total of 55 people had been killed in the past 24 hours and that another 196 had been wounded.
Three more people were killed and five wounded in an airstrike on the edge of Qamatiyeh, southeast of Beirut, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. Israeli planes also pounded Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh overnight, destroying dozens of buildings in several neighborhoods, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.
Hezbollah has been firing thousands of rockets, drones and missiles into Israel — and drawing fierce Israeli retaliatory strikes — since Hamas' attack on Israel last year. Both Hezbollah and Hamas are backed by Iran, Israel's regional adversary.
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