Israeli Attacks Targeting Southern Lebanon Kill 13
LEBANON – Israeli attacks targeting southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people and injured several others on Wednesday, according to local reports.
Civil Defense teams and the Islamic Risala Scout Association recovered four bodies and rescued three wounded from the rubble after an airstrike hit the Al-Khodra complex in the Qadmous area, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.
In the town of Ansariyeh, five people were killed in a dawn strike, the agency reported.
Three more people were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Abbasiya area of Tyre district, it added.
In the town of Jbaa of Nabatieh district, an Israeli airstrike on a home killed a man, his wife, and their two children, according to the agency.
Another Israeli attack struck a vehicle in the Saadiyat area in Mount Lebanon, it added.
The US, Israel and Lebanon agreed to begin direct negotiations after a trilateral meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, according to a statement released following the session.
The talks, the first direct diplomatic engagement between the two countries in more than 30 years, came as Israel continues an air and ground offensive in southern Lebanon, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing a million others. Israel began striking Hezbollah after the group retaliated to US-Israeli attacks on Iran in early March.
