Israel has carried out intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly cutting a highway link to Beirut.

The pre-dawn attacks on the village of Msayleh on Saturday struck a place that sold heavy machinery, destroying a large number of vehicles, the Health Ministry said.

A vehicle carrying vegetables that happened to be passing by at the time of the strikes was also hit, killing one person and wounding another, according to Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV.

The Health Ministry later said that victim was a Syrian citizen, while the wounded were a Syrian national and six Lebanese, including two women.

The Israeli military said it struck a place where machinery was stored to be used to rebuild infrastructure for the Hezbollah militant group.

Since the 14-mont

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