14 hurt, including 4 children and 7 women, in Israeli strike on Nabatieh building

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building on the outskirts of the southern city of Nabatieh overnight, wounding 14 people, among them at least four children and seven women, the Health Ministry and the National News Agency said.

Two of the children are in critical condition, the Ministry added.

The Israeli army claimed that the strike targeted “a Hezbollah headquarters.”

Israeli warplanes also launched a wave of strikes on the nearby Ali al-Taher heights.

An Israeli drone meanwhile bombed the southern town of Yater, following a similar strike earlier in the day on a car in the same town that wounded one person.

The Israeli military has continued to carry out strikes in Lebanon despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah last November that ended more than a year of hostilities between them.

Under pressure from the United States and fearing an escalation of Israeli strikes, the Lebanese government is now moving to disarm Hezbollah.

The group, which previously dominated Lebanese politics and was thought to be better armed than the army, was severely weakened by the war with Israel.

According to Lebanese government, the Lebanese Army must complete its disarmament of Hezbollah in areas near the Israeli border within three months.

Lebanon is meanwhile demanding that Israel halt its strikes and withdraw from five strategic hills it is still occupying in south Lebanon.