Israel strikes south Lebanon, killing 1 and wounding 7 : NPR
People gather at a heavy machinery sales site, where a large number of vehicles were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, in the southern village of Msayleh, Lebanon, Saturday, October 11, 2025.
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BEIRUT — Israel carried out intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Saturday, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly cutting off a highway linking Beirut to parts of southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.
The pre-dawn airstrikes on the village of Msayleh hit a place where heavy equipment was sold, destroying a large number of vehicles.
A vehicle carrying vegetables that was passing by at the time of the strikes was hit, killing one person and injuring another, according to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television.
The Health Ministry later said the person killed was a Syrian citizen, while the injured were a Syrian national and six Lebanese nationals, including two women.
The Israeli military said it struck a location where machinery was stored to be used to rebuild the Hezbollah militant group’s infrastructure.
Since the 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah ended in late November with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, Israel has carried out almost daily airstrikes, killing dozens of people. Israel accuses Hezbollah of trying to rebuild its capabilities after the group suffered heavy losses during the war.
Earlier this month, UN human rights chief Volker Türk called for renewed efforts to bring a permanent end to hostilities in post-war Lebanon. He said that until the end of September, they had verified 103 civilians killed in Lebanon since the ceasefire.
The latest war between Israel and Hezbollah has killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon, including hundreds of civilians, and caused an estimated $11 billion in destruction, according to the World Bank. In Israel, 127 people died, including 80 soldiers.
The war began when Hezbollah began firing rockets across the border on October 8, 2023, a day after a deadly Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel sparked the Gaza war. Israel responded with bombings and airstrikes in Lebanon, and the two sides found themselves locked in a conflict that escalated into a full-blown war in late September 2024.
