At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in fresh attacks carried out by Israeli warplanes on targets in southern Lebanon on Friday, security sources said.

Israeli jets attacked targets at Lebanon's southern market town of Nabatiyeh at about 8:30 a.m. (0530 GMT), the sources said, adding that a Jordanian was killed by missile shrapnel and three others were wounded in the strike.

Israeli unleashed at least seven air strikes on the region since early Friday, according to the sources.

Earlier on Friday, Israeli warplanes also destroyed an empty four-story building near Nabatiyeh, the sources said, without giving more details.

The Israeli massive offensive against Lebanese Hezbollah entered its 17th day Friday, which started on July 12 after two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped by the Shiite group Hezbollah in a cross-border attack.

Lebanese Minister of Public Health Mohammed Jawad Khalife said on Thursday that about 600 Lebanese civilians had been killed in the ongoing Israeli massive assault in Lebanon.

Khalife was quoted by the Lebanese state-run radio as saying that hospitals across Lebanon had received some 400 bodies so far and that about 150 to 200 people were believed to be still buried under the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli air raids.

On the Israeli front, some 51 Israelis including 18 civilians have been killed in the over-two-week-old conflict, according to media reports.

Source: Xinhua