Israeli shelling in Lebanese border town ‘kills elderly woman’

Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes on the outskirts of Khiam, a town near the Lebanese-Israeli border (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)

Israeli shelling in the Lebanese border town of Maroun El-Ras on Thursday killed an elderly woman in her 80s and wounded her husband, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said.

The Israeli military said it launched artillery and airstrikes on Hezbollah militant positions in southern Lebanon late on Wednesday and early on Thursday. It did not immediately comment on the strike that was reported to have killed the Lebanese civilian.