Israeli Airstrikes Kill Nine, Including Two Children, Along Beirut-Sidon Highway

Israeli airstrikes hit coastal areas along the highway linking Beirut to Sidon and a vehicle near Rafic Hariri Sports City, killing nine people including two children, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry and local media.

“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”

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Anadolu Ajansı reported that three Israeli airstrikes targeted Barja, Jiyeh and Saadiyat and killed eight people, including two children, while another drone strike targeted a vehicle near the Rafic Hariri Sports City north of Sidon, killing one person and injuring another.

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The Killeen Daily Herald, citing the Lebanese Health Ministry, said Israeli drones struck three vehicles on the main highway south of Beirut, killing eight people including a woman and her two children.

The Killeen Daily Herald also said the Israeli military told residents of six southern villages to evacuate hours before the strikes, and that Lebanon and Israel were scheduled to hold another round of direct talks in Washington on Thursday.

Al Jazeera said the three Israeli drone strikes on cars on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon killed at least eight people including two children, and reported that the Jiyeh area was about 20km (12 miles) south of the Lebanese capital.

Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for residents of Meiss el-Jabal, Yanouh, Burj Shemali, Hula, Debl and Aabbasiyyeh, warning it would soon act against the six southern Lebanese villages “forcefully.”

Al Jazeera also quoted its correspondent in Tyre saying, “There are only three left in the whole district of Tyre, and there are still people who live here,” adding that injured people did not make it because “the road is a long journey to reach these hospitals.”

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The BBC said Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that overnight, six people were killed and seven others were injured when a house in Kfar Dounine was hit, and that on Tuesday afternoon two paramedics from the Lebanese Civil Defense were killed and a third injured in an Israeli strike on Nabatieh.

The BBC quoted Lebanese President Joseph Aoun expressing “sadness and regret at the killing of two Civil Defence members” in Nabatieh and saying “the continued Israeli aggression hinders efforts to restore calm.”

In a separate account, Anadolu Ajansı said the Israeli army continues daily strikes and fire exchanges with Hezbollah despite a ceasefire announced on April 17 and extended until May 17.

Anadolu Ajansı said that since March 2, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed more than 2,840 people, injured over 8,690, and displaced more than 1.6 million, about one-fifth of the population, according to Lebanese officials.

The Killeen Daily Herald reported that Lebanon and Israel were scheduled to hold another round of direct talks in Washington on Thursday as the Trump administration pushed for a breakthrough between the two neighbors at a state of war since Israel was created in 1948.

Al Jazeera said Hezbollah opposes the negotiations in the US and described the conflict as “only escalating,” while also reporting that the latest Israel-Hezbollah war started on March 2.

The BBC said Lebanese Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine told reporters Tuesday that since the ceasefire went into effect, 380 people have been killed and 1,122 have been wounded, bringing the toll since the war began to 2,882 killed and 8,786 wounded.

Al Jazeera added that it said on Monday that 108 emergency medical services and healthcare workers had been killed in Lebanon during the war, with more than 140 Israeli attacks recorded on ambulances and medical facilities.