A strike on south Beirut killed at least four people and wounded at least 39 on Sunday, near Lebanon’s largest public hospital, the Lebanese health ministry said.

The area lies adjacent to Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.

Another strike on southern Lebanon’s Kfar Hatta, near the coastal city of Sidon, killed seven people on Sunday, including a family of six, a source from the Lebanese civil defense told AFP.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said that among those killed was a 4-year-old girl and a soldier.

The Israeli military had called on the entire village to evacuate late on Saturday. There was no immediate comment on the deaths from the IDF.

Kfar Hatta has hosted many displaced people who fled from southern Lebanon.

The civil defense source said the family, lacking a car and already displaced from a town further south, was waiting for a relative to come pick them up. That man was also killed in the strike.

NNA also said a three-story building in Beirut’s Jnah neighborhood that was filled with residents sustained “severe damage” in an Israeli strike.

The strike came without warning, soon after an earlier one that came with advance notice, AP reported.

The Israel Defense Forces had announced earlier that it conducted a wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut.

The strikes come after the IDF reiterated its evacuation warning for the entire Dahiyeh area of south Beirut.

Rocket fire on northern Israel

Sirens sounded in the upper Galilee several times in quick succession as Hezbollah stepped up its fire on northern Israel after an overnight lull and relatively calm morning.

No injuries were........

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