Beirut, March 07 (QNA) - The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health announced on Saturday that the death toll from a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting the town of Al-Nabi Shayth in Baalbek District has risen to 16, with 35 others injured.

The Ministry's Emergency Operations Center said in a statement that the toll remains provisional.

Meanwhile, the National News Agency reported that three people were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the village of Burj Rahal in southern Lebanon.

Earlier, the Ministry's Emergency Operations Center had stated that the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since dawn last Monday had risen to 217, with 798 people injured. (QNA)