7 killed in Israeli airstrike on E. Lebanon

BEIRUT, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — Seven people were killed and two others injured Wednesday morning in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese Civil Defense and military sources.
An anonymous source in the Lebanese Civil Defense told Xinhua that its members, in cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross, retrieved seven bodies from the rubble of a house in the village of El Ain, adjacent to Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek.
The source added that search operations were still underway for two other missing persons.
Eyewitnesses said that the two-story building was destroyed, and rescue teams were struggling to remove the rubble.
Lebanese military sources told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes carried out 21 airstrikes Wednesday morning on 15 towns and villages in southern Lebanon and eight raids on five villages and towns in eastern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said in statements that its military wing targeted several Israeli targets with rocket barrages, including villages and towns, as well as the headquarters of the Israeli 188th Brigade in the Rawiya barracks in the occupied Golan. ■