The Ansar strike, Aug. 15 -- Three children were among the seven people killed when an Israeli airstrike destroyed a family home in the village of Ansar, in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh region, on Friday, the single deadliest strike of a day that left at least 11 dead and 19 wounded across multiple towns and localities south of the Litani River, intensifying a months-long pattern of attacks that a June ceasefire framework was supposed to bring to an end.

walls collapsed inward, household belongings scattered across the ground, no portion of the structure still standing.

A second strike hit the town of Deir ez-Zahrani, killing four and wounding 17 more, Al Jazeera reported. Israeli forces also struck a teachers' training centre, a Hussein...