Israeli warplanes carried out new air strikes Thursday on Hezbollah strongholds in south Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley to the east of the capital, killing three people, police said.
One policeman and two civilians died when Israeli attacks ripped along the Bekaa, hitting vehicles, an AFP photographer said.
Warplanes fired more than 400 missiles overnight at Khiam in the south, a security official told the state news agency ANI. Four UN monitors were killed when their observation post in the border town was destroyed by Israeli bombardment on Tuesday.
In air raids to the east of Sidon, the regional capital of the south, one person was seriously wounded in the village of Zefta, police said. A home was destroyed in Bazalieh to the north of Baalbek in the Bekaa.
A Lebanese military source said Israel also carried out a raid early Thursday near an army base in the Amchit region, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Beirut, without causing any casualties.
Israeli rockets caused a fire at a radio communications centre, the source said.
On Wednesday, as the war between the Jewish state and the Shiite militants of Hezbollah entered its third week, three people were killed as Israel pounded south Lebanon, including two guerrillas, and 12 people wounded.
Since the start of the Israeli offensive on July 12, more than 400 people have been killed in Lebanon. Most have been civilians; 29 were Lebanese troops or police.
