BEIRUT, November 15. /TASS/. At least six people, some of them rescue workers, were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed the village of Arab Salim in Lebanon’s south, the country’s Health Ministry wrote on the X social network.

According to the report, the aerial attack targeted the local civil defense office. Four of the victims were rescue workers.

The ministry said in its daily bulletin that at least 21 Lebanese citizens were killed and 73 wounded in hostilities on Thursday.

The overall death toll in the hostilities that have been ongoing since October 2023, has reached 3,386 people, including 220 children. Another 14,417 people were wounded.

Tensions erupted again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, after militants from the Gaza Strip-based Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise attack into Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting hundreds of Israelis. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and initiated bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave.

On September 23, Israel launched Operation Northern Arrows against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah Shia movement, carrying out massive airstrikes on its military targets. The Israeli army announced the start of a ground operation in the border areas of southern Lebanon in the early hours of October 1.