BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA).
One person was killed in an Israeli drone strike on the town of Maarakeh in the Tyre district, NNA said.
In the Jezzine district in southern Lebanon, Ali Badih, the mukhtar (mayor) of the town of Rihan, was killed in an Israeli strike on the town. Earlier, NNA reported that a drone targeted an employee of Lebanon's electricity company near his home, leaving him wounded.
Another person was killed in a strike targeting the town of Kfar Remmen in the Nabatieh district, according to NNA.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese Armed Forces said on X that an Israeli drone wounded a Lebanese soldier in the southern city of Nabatieh.
Also on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck more than 70 Hezbollah military infrastructure sites in southern Lebanon over the previous 24 hours.
The targets included launchers and structures used by Hezbollah to carry out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, the IDF said in a statement.
The military added that it had also killed Hezbollah militants identified in areas where IDF troops were operating in southern Lebanon.
Earlier on Saturday, the IDF reported air raid sirens in northern Israel's village of Margaliot over suspected "hostile aircraft."
Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was an explosive drone launched by Hezbollah that fell on an Israeli military post in southern Lebanon.
The Emergency Operations Center of Lebanon's Public Health Ministry said that the cumulative toll from Israeli attacks between March 2 and June 13 reached 3,756 killed and 11,632 wounded. ■
