Israeli drone strikes hit highway south of Beirut, killing 8, including 2 children
The Lebanese Health Ministry said the strikes hit three vehicles and killed eight people, including a woman and two children.
- Israeli drones struck three vehicles on a highway south of Beirut on Wednesday, killing eight people, including a woman and her two children, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
- Despite a U.S.-mediated ceasefire announced last month, Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel continue trading blows, with hostilities concentrated in southern Lebanon where Israeli forces occupy a self-declared security zone.
- Lebanon and Israel are scheduled to hold direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday, though Hezbollah opposes the U.S.-brokered talks while maintaining its campaign against Israeli troops.
- The ministry reported 380 people killed during the truce, bringing the total death toll since the war began to more than 2,800, with 108 emergency medical services and healthcare workers also slain.
- On Wednesday morning, the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for residents of six southern Lebanese villages, warning it will soon act against these areas where at least 100,000 people still reside.
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Israeli drone strikes kill 8 near Beirut ahead of talks
Israeli drone strikes on Wednesday hit multiple vehicles along a main highway south of Beirut, killing eight people — including a woman and her two children — according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, in one of the deadliest escalations since the ceasefire took effect.
Nine killed in Israeli strikes on cars south of Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel intensified strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday with the health ministry reporting nine people killed in attacks targeting cars between Beirut and the coastal city of Sidon despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Israeli drone strikes on Lebanon highway leaves at least 8 dead
BEIRUT — Israeli drone strikes on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon on Wednesday 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 in the Jiyeh area showed the vehicles severely damaged, their exteriors charred and torn apart. Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel have been trading blows despite a…
Israel Launches New Strikes South Of Beirut
Israel carried out fresh airstrikes on vehicles along a major highway south of Beirut on Wednesday, according to Lebanese state media, despite an ongoing ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese government. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that two cars were targeted near Jiyeh, roughly 12 miles from the capital. An AFP photographer reportedly saw a burned vehicle at the scene and rescuers removing a body. Casualty figures were not immed…
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