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Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill at least 8 despite ceasefire
Middle East wars Middle East wars Middle East wars Lebanon Lebanon Lebanon Lebanese official media reported multiple strikes, including one in the city of Nabatieh that killed a Syrian national. Hezbollah said it targeted northern Israel with drones in response. Israel carried out strikes across Lebanon on Saturday, May 9, killing at least eight people in the south, according to authorities, despite a three-week-old ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. Israel also performed raids targeting a highway not far from Beirut outside of Hezbollah's traditional strongholds. Hezbollah, meanwhile, said it targeted northern Israel with drones on at least two occasions in response to the continued strikes. The Israeli military said "several" explosive drones were launched into Israeli territory, with one army reservist severely wounded and two others moderately injured in one of the attacks. Israeli forces and Hezbollah have traded fire daily, mostly in southern Lebanon, despite the ceasefire agreement in effect since April 17. The fresh attacks were some of the most intense since the start of the ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah that has done little to halt daily exchanges of fire. "The Israeli enemy launched two strikes on the Saadiyat highway," the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported, referring to a location around 20 kilometers south of Beirut and outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds. An Agence France-Presse correspondent saw two stricken cars and emergency workers on the highway linking Beirut to the country's south. The NNA also reported a series of Israeli strikes across the south, including one on the southern town of Saksakiyeh. The health ministry later said that raid "resulted in an initial toll of seven martyrs, including a girl, and 15 wounded, including three children." The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli strike on a motorbike in the city of Nabatieh outside the evacuation areas hit "a Syrian national and his 12-year-old daughter." "After they managed to move away from the site of the first strike, the drone attacked a second time," killing the father, the ministry said, while the drone then targeted the girl "directly for a third time." The girl was undergoing life-saving surgery, the ministry said. Israel's military had called on residents of nine villages to evacuate, saying it would act "forcefully" against Hezbollah, though neither of the two locations of the fatal strikes...
At least eight killed in Israeli drone strikes on highway south of Beirut
There were three strikes on cars on the highway in Jiyeh and the dead included two children, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said.Three Israeli drone strikes on cars on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon have killed at least eight people, including two children, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported.A photograph of the bombed cars shared by Lebanon’s National News Agency following the attacks on Wednesday in the Jiyeh area, some 20km (12 miles) south of the Lebanese capital, showed the vehicles severely damaged, their exteriors charred and torn apart.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israel’s war creating a ‘lost generation’ of Lebanese studentslist 2 of 3Israel kills, injures average of 4 children daily amid Lebanon ‘ceasefire’list 3 of 3Israeli military kills six in Lebanon, issues more displacement threatsend of listAl Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, said the “conflict is only escalating”.“It is a conflict that is taking a high toll on the civilians who live in these areas,” she said.Lebanon and Israel are expected to hold a new round of direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday, brokered by the United States.Hezbollah, which has been launching attacks on northern Israel and on Israeli troops who have entered and occupied a section of southern Lebanon, says it opposes the negotiations in the US.On Wednesday morning, the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for the residents of Meiss el-Jabal, Yanouh, Burj Shemali, Hula, Debl and Aabbasiyyeh, warning that it will soon act against these six southern Lebanese villages “forcefully”.Anyone who remains “endangers their life,” the military said, warning residents to move at least 1,000 metres (0.6 miles) away to “open areas”.First responders carry the body of a victim at the site of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a vehicle in the town of Jiyeh [Fadel Itani/AFP]After this new round of forced displacement orders – which have been happening almost daily in the past week – Al Jazeera’s Khodr said one of the few remaining hospitals in the area was in the displacement zone.“There are only three left in the whole district of Tyre, and there are still people who live here. At least 100,000 people still live here,” she said.“These hospitals are really a lifeline for these people, but some of them, those who are injured, don’t make it because the road is a long journey to reach these hospitals and people are still in villages further south...
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 13 in Lebanon as drone strikes near ...
Israeli drone strikes south of Beirut on Saturday killed four people, while a series of airstrikes across southern Lebanon claimed at least 13 lives, including a man and his 12-year-old daughter ...
Lebanon says Israel kills 8 in south, strikes reported outside Beirut ...
Authorities reported eight people killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, with more raids targeting a highway south of Beirut outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds and far from the centre of ongoing fighting.The fresh attacks came in spite of a three-week-old ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah that has done little to halt daily exchanges of fire ...
