Israeli strikes kill 19 in Lebanon, Hezbollah reports clashes

BEIRUT, May 20:  Israeli strikes on south Lebanon Tuesday killed 19 people, the health ministry said, as Hezbollah reported clashes with Israeli troops despite a truce in the war.

"An Israeli airstrike on the town of Deir Qanun al-Nahr in the Tyre district resulted in an initial toll of 10 martyrs, including three children and three women, in addition to three wounded," the ministry said in a statement, calling it a "massacre".

It said a woman was among nine killed in other strikes across the south, which wounded 29, including six women and a child.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency and AFP photographers also reported a series of strikes that targeted several areas in the Tyre district and Nabatieh province in the south.

The top two floors of a building in Maashuq in the Tyre district collapsed after an airstrike, according to AFP images. It also damaged neighbouring buildings and parked cars.    �"AFP