TUNIS, March 3. /TASS/. At least forty people have been killed and 246 others injured in Israeli strikes on Lebanese territory since yesterday, Lebanon’s Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine said.

"Forty dead and 246 others wounded as a result of the attacks on Lebanon since yesterday," the Al Jazeera news outlet quoted him as saying.

According to the minister, private hospitals will be mobilized in the near future to provide emergency assistance, supplementing the efforts of state hospitals.