Israel wages evening strikes on Lebanon, causing casualties in Tyre city

Israel carried out a second wave of airstrikes in Lebanon on Saturday evening, including in the southern city of Tyre and the Bekaa region, in response to three rockets that were fired by unknown individuals from Lebanon at north Israel.

The Israeli strike on Tyre killed one person and wounded seven others, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered "a second wave of strikes against dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon" late Saturday, the defense ministry said.

It said the strikes were "a response to rocket fire towards Israel and a continuation of the first series of strikes carried out this morning" against southern Lebanon, where a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect in November.

The Israeli army claimed that its evening strikes targeted "Hezbollah command centers, infrastructure, militants, rocket launchpads and an arms depot."

Five people were killed and 11 others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the southern town of Touline, the Health Ministry said. It added that six people were killed and 31 others wounded in the two waves of Israeli airstrikes on the South and the Bekaa.