Fatalities reported in Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Baalbek, pair of southern towns

By Agencies and ToI Staff 4 March 2026, 4:53 am

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Several people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a four-story residential building in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, the state news agency NNA reports early Wednesday.

Rescue teams are working to pull families from beneath the rubble, NNA says.

Lebanon’s health ministry meanwhile says that Israeli strikes on two towns south of Beirut killed six people and wounded eight.

In a statement, the ministry says that “the Israeli enemy’s attacks on the areas of Aramoun and Saadiyat” killed six people and wounded eight others “in a preliminary toll,” which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Aramoun and Saadiyat are both towns outside of Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds.