Two people were killed and three others wounded on Monday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a civilian car and a motorcycle in southern Lebanon, military sources told Xinhua.

Lebanese military sources said that an Israeli drone fired two air-to-ground missiles at a civilian car that was travelling on the main road linking the villages of Mays al-Jabal and Chaqra.

Mays al-Jabal and Chaqra villages are in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon, wounding two people, with one of them dying later due to his severe injuries.

In a separate incident, an Israeli drone fired three missiles at a motorcycle near the Dubieh Fortress on the road between the villages of Mays al-Jabal and Chaqra.

It resulted in one death and two victims with injuries, with the victims including a child, according to the sources.

Israeli drones launched multiple airstrikes on five towns and villages in the border area of southern Lebanon on Monday morning.

Israeli artillery shelled nine towns and villages in the area with about 35 shells.

Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on October 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ attack on Israel the day before.

Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward south-eastern Lebanon. 

(Xinhua/NAN)