Dozens killed in Israeli targeting of Sur, Baalbek | Israeli military kidnaps Lebanese man from Batroun | 19 injured in Hezbollah rocket attack on central Israel

An Israeli drone fired a missile targeting the town of Zutar in Lebanon’s southern city of Nabatieh, while air raids targeted the towns Numeiriya and Rumin on Saturday, continuing in Khiam.

Israeli aircrafts also launched heavy raids on the villages of Yater, Kafara, the town of Siddiqin, the outskirts of the Rashkananiya in the south on Saturday, as well as the outskirts of the Qana village. This comes after Israel ordered residents of Rashidieh and nine nearby villages to evacuate north of the Awali River on Thursday morning, driving a large wave of displacement in one of the largest Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon, the Rashidieh camp, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported.

On Friday, Israeli airstrikes targeted the Ghandour building in Nabatiyeh’s Biyad neighborhood, causing its southern side to collapse and starting a fire on several floors. The building includes the organizational office of the Amal Movement, the Tobacco and Tobacco Growers Union, the Social and Cultural Development Association, and the Jawhar dairy and cheese factory. Medical sources reported that there were no casualties but a number of wounded, who were transferred to hospitals in the area.

An Israeli airstrike in the vicinity of the Tibnin Hospital in Nabatieh damaged its main entrance in the late hours of Friday evening, killing two people, according to the NNA. The Lebanese news agency reported significant damage to the hospital after its surroundings were targeted by midnight Israeli air raids on the Bint Jbeil district, including the villages of Konin, Tiri, Sarabin and Haris.

In the villages of the western and central areas of the Sur and Bint Jbeil districts, Israeli raids and shelling continued throughout the night until the early hours of dawn, killing and wounding a number of people and destroying a large number of homes and residential neighborhoods, according to the Lebanese national news agency. Israel’s attacks on Friday evening killed a total of 17 people and left 54 wounded, Sur’s head of medicine in the Health Ministry, Wissam Ghazal, told the NNA.

The Israeli military spokesperson claimed on Saturday to have killed two Hezbollah officials in its attacks on Sur — Hezbollah’s commander of the Sahel area, Moussa Ezzeddin, and Hassan Maged Ziab — both of whom Israel claims are responsible for the operations targeting Haifa last Thursday.

Northward on the Lebanese coast, footage circulated on Friday of Israeli military personnel abducting a Lebanese man from Batroun. The man was identified as Emad Amhaz, a senior member of Hezbollah's naval force from Batroun who was captured by the Israeli Navy, an Israeli official told Axios journalist Barak Ravid, who added that the official said Amhaz was captured for interrogation and to inform the Israeli military about Hezbollah's naval operations.

On Saturday afternoon, the Israeli military spokesperson warned all residents of southern Lebanon to refrain from traveling further south and return to their homes or their olive fields.

Meanwhile, Israel’s attack on Lebanon’s historic governorate of Baalbek has killed more than 52 people in its targeting of over 20 towns, leaving more than 70 people injured, according to Al Jazeera, which cites ministry data published midnight on Friday.

Friday night's attacks on Baalbek included the village of Bednayel, where eight people from the same family were killed, including two children and women, and Bazaleya, where 12 people were killed.

Baalbek has been under heavy Israeli targeting in recent days, with Monday seeing unprecedented Israeli attacks that killed 66 people in an eight-hour raid on the city and several towns and regions in the governorate.

The General Directorate of Civil Defense at the Lebanese Interior and Municipalities Ministry announced that, from Friday evening to Saturday morning, its crews exhumed three bodies from underneath the rubble in Younine, Baalbek, and extracted an injured man who was trapped under the rubble as a result of an Israeli raid, transferring him to the Najda Popular Hospital.

Baalbek’s heritage was not spared from the Israeli bombing that targeted the city, with damage reported on Saturday to the Roman wall outside Baalbek Castle, leading to the collapse of approximately 30 meters of the wall and significant damage to the landmark, according to Lebanese outlet Al-Nashra.

Israel has killed around 2,897 people, including over 182 children, and injured more than 13,000 others since the beginning of its aggression on Lebanon in September, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced Friday evening. 178 of those killed were healthcare workers.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military announced on Saturday that it detected 10 rockets launched from Lebanon in the direction of Haifa and the Galilee, saying it intercepted some while others landed in open areas, according to Al-Qahera News.

Hezbollah said on Saturday morning that it shelled Krayot, north of Haifa, and the Zofulun military base and launched a squadron of drones on the Palmachim air base south of Tel Aviv, which it claimed contained a military research center and radar for the Hetz system. The attack, Hezbollah said, included the shelling of the Beriya and Bar Yohai settlements in Israel’s north.

Nineteen people were injured last night when a Lebanese rocket hit the town of Tayra in central Israel. Israel's air defense system failed to intercept one of the three rockets launched by Hezbollah, according to Israel's Channel 12.