Beirut, June 9 (Petra) -- Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said on Tuesday that an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Masaken neighborhood in the city of Tyre killed eight people, including a woman, and injured 35 others, among them three children and six women.

In a statement, the ministry said a separate Israeli airstrike on the Al-Bass area in the Tyre district killed three people and wounded nine others, including two women.

A Lebanese security source said Israeli warplanes were carrying out a series of airstrikes targeting the villages of Srifa, Deir Kifa, Majdal Zoun and Yater in the districts of Tyre and Bint Jbeil.

The airstrikes were accompanied by 155 mm artillery shelling of villages in the western sector of the Tyre district, while Israeli fighter jets and drones continued to operate in the area’s airspace.

//Petra// AF

09/06/2026 23:35:37