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One killed, 7 injured in Israeli strikes on civilian facilities in Lebanon

Friday, 17 October 2025 6:47 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 17 October 2025 6:47 AM ]

A firefighter douses the flames of a fire that took over a cement manufacturing complex following a series of Israeli airstrikes, in the village of Ansar, in Lebanon’s southern Nabatieh Governorate, on October 16, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

The Israeli military has conducted fresh airstrikes on eastern and southern Lebanon, killing one person and wounding seven others in yet another violation of the country’s sovereignty and a ceasefire deal with the Hezbollah resistance movement.

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said that one person was killed in the town of Shmustar in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, one injured in Bnaafoul in South Governorate, and six wounded in Ansar in Nabatieh Governorate on Thursday.

Lebanese media reported that the Israeli air raids in Ansar targeted a cement manufacturing complex, an asphalt factory, and fuel tanks.

Additionally on Thursday, an Israeli drone strike hit the town of Blida, situated in Nabatieh Governorate, while residents were harvesting olives.

The Israeli military said that it had targeted several Hezbollah facilities.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, however, rejected the Israeli claim, saying the regime’s strikes targeted “civilian facilities” in breach of last year’s truce agreement.

“The repeated Israeli aggression comes as part of a systematic policy aimed at destroying productive infrastructure, hindering economic recovery, and undermining national stability under false security pretexts,” he added.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — WOW! Israel's strike in southern Lebanon tonight turned night into day.. WATCH. pic.twitter.com/xinhrhNEbt
— Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) October 16, 2025

Israel launched its aggression against Lebanon in October 2023 in response to Hezbollah’s pro-Palestinian airstrikes against the occupied territories.

The regime, however, agreed to the ceasefire after failing to stop the resistance operations and cripple Hezbollah as it had sought.

Since the truce deal began on November 27, 2024, Israel has breached it 4,952 times, killing 282 people and wounding 578 others in Lebanon.

The Tel Aviv regime also keeps occupying five strategic points in southern Lebanon that provide a commanding view of the area and a superior firing position.

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