Israeli strikes on two Lebanese villages kill at least nine

Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes on two villages Saturday, one north of Beirut and another south of the capital, killed at least nine people.

An “Israeli enemy strike on Maaysra,” a Shia Islam majority village in a mostly Christian mountain area north of Beirut, killed “five people and wounded 14 others,” the ministry said in a statement, adding separately that “four people were killed and 14 others wounded” in an “Israeli enemy strike” on Barja in the Shouf district south of the capital.