People gather at a heavy equipment sales site where a large number of vehicles were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, in the southern village of Msayleh, Lebanon, Saturday, October 11, 2025.
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BEIRUT – Israel launched intense airstrikes in southern Lebanon early Saturday, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly closing a highway linking Beirut to parts of southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.
Pre-dawn airstrikes on the village of Msayleh targeted a heavy equipment sales area, destroying a large number of vehicles.
According to Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV channel, a car carrying vegetables passing by during the strikes was hit, killing one person and wounding another.
The Health Ministry later said that the person killed was a Syrian citizen, and the wounded were a Syrian citizen and six Lebanese, including two women.
The Israeli military said it struck a site storing equipment that would be used to rebuild the infrastructure of the militant group Hezbollah.
Since the 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah ended in late November with a US-brokered ceasefire, Israel has carried out airstrikes almost daily, killing dozens of people. Israel accuses Hezbollah of trying to rebuild its capabilities after the group suffered heavy casualties during the war.
Earlier this month, UN human rights chief Volker Türk called for renewed efforts to permanently end fighting in Lebanon after the war. He said that by the end of September they had verified 103 civilians killed in Lebanon since the ceasefire.
The latest war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon killed more than 4,000 people, including hundreds of civilians, and caused damage estimated at $11 billion, according to the World Bank. In Israel, 127 people were killed, including 80 soldiers.
The war began when Hezbollah began firing rockets across the border on October 8, 2023, the day after Hamas's deadly incursion into southern Israel sparked war in the Gaza Strip. Israel responded with shelling and airstrikes in Lebanon, and both sides became embroiled in an escalating conflict that escalated into full-scale war in late September 2024.
