Beirut, March 11 (QNA) – Fifteen people were killed and 42 others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting several areas across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Lebanese health authorities.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health reported that Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on the town of Al-Shahabiya in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, killing seven people and injuring 11 others.

The Ministry’s Emergency Operations Center said that another airstrike targeted the town of Tibnin in the Bint Jbeil district, wounding four people.

The center added that multiple airstrikes in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon killed seven people and injured 18 others in the town of Tamnin al-Tahta, while five additional people were wounded in the town of Ali al-Nahri.

Separately, one person was killed in a drone strike in the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, while four others were wounded when an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment in the Aisha Bakkar area of Beirut.

Israeli warplanes also launched airstrikes on a number of towns and villages in southern Lebanon, according to local reports.

Lebanon, particularly its southern regions, has been witnessing a sharp escalation in Israeli military strikes since March 2 amid heightened regional tensions. (QNA)