The Israeli army has targeted farmers in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district with phosphorus shells, while detaining three civilians and wounding another person, according to Lebanese media reports.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported on Tuesday that Israeli forces fired three phosphorus shells near farmers harvesting watermelons in fields near the Mansouri junction in the Tyre district.
The farmers fled the area immediately after the shelling, and no injuries were reported, the agency said.
Israeli aircraft also struck the towns of Hanawieh and Maarka in the Tyre district, according to NNA.
In the same district, the Islamic Health Committee said it recovered the body of a civilian from beneath the rubble of a house in the town of Qana that was hit by Israeli forces on Monday, while search operations for other missing people continued.
In southern Lebanon’s eastern sector, NNA reported that Israeli forces established a checkpoint at the Marjayoun-Halta junction in Nabatieh district near shops previously targeted in shelling attacks.
