Hezbollah Attacks Israeli Troops; Israel Strikes Kill 17 in Southern Lebanon
Israeli air strikes killed at least 17 people across southern Lebanon on Wednesday, including two in a drone attack on a car in Sidon. The Lebanese health ministry has recorded 3,696 deaths since the conflict began.
koreatimes.co.krIsraeli air strikes killed at least 17 people in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. Nine people died in a series of strikes on the town of Tayr Debba east of Tyre. Two Israeli strikes killed three people in the village of Deir Qanoun el-Nahr near Tyre.
Two more died in Seddiqin southeast of Tyre, and one person was killed in the Massaken al-Shaabiya area of Tyre. An Israeli drone strike killed two people in a car in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. An AFP correspondent heard an explosion and saw the car burning in central Sidon before rescuers pulled the two people from the vehicle.
On Tuesday, Israeli strikes in Massaken al-Shaabiya and elsewhere in Tyre killed 11 people, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israeli military issued a new evacuation order for Tyre that included its Christian quarter for the first time and struck six Hezbollah infrastructure sites in the city along with ready-to-use launchers in several other areas of southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah said its fighters carried out attacks on Israeli troops and military vehicles in the southern Bayada and Yohmor areas with rocket barrages and shellfire.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk announced he was sending a team of investigators to Lebanon at the request of the Lebanese government. The team will examine possible human rights violations by all sides since the start of March and is expected to present its findings at the end of July.
The conflict escalated on 2 March when Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed Iran's supreme leader.
Israel responded by launching a bombing campaign across Lebanon and invading a significant part of the country's south. S. brokered a ceasefire deal between the Israeli and Lebanese governments on 16 April, but the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has continued since then.
On Sunday, Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs after Hezbollah fired two rockets over the border. Iran fired some 30 ballistic missiles at Israel in response, and Israel carried out two waves of air strikes on Iran. Iran warned it would resume hostilities if Israel continued to attack Lebanon.
