BEIRUT (Reuters) -At least 20 people were killed and 13 injured in Israeli air strikes in the Mount Lebanon area, the Lebanese health ministry said on Tuesday.
One strike on the Joun in Chouf district of Mount Lebanon killed 12 people and injured eight, the ministry said.
Another, on the town of Baalchmay, killed eight and injured five, the ministry added.
Fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah was continuing in Lebanon as the Israeli military pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with air strikes on Tuesday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area.
(Reporting by Riham AlKoussa, Jana Choukeir and Jaidaa Taha; Editing by Andrew Heavens, William Maclean and Sandra Maler)
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