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ANSAR, Oct. 17, 2025 (UNI/Xinhua) -- People check a destroyed cement manufacturing complex following Israeli airstrikes in Ansar, Lebanon, on Oct. 17, 2025. One person was killed and seven others were wounded on Thursday in a series of Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry's Emergency Operations Center said. The center said in a statement that one person was killed in the eastern town of Shmustar, one injured in Bna'foul in the Sidon district, and six wounded in Ansar in the Nabatieh district. The official National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israel launched an airstrike around 9 p.m. local time (1800 GMT), hitting a concrete mixing plant and a quarry in Wadi Basfour, between the villages of Ansar, Sinay, and Basfour in southern Lebanon. UNI PHOTO-14F