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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Via AP news wire

Israel kills 8 in southern Lebanon, a day after Trump said Israel and Hezbollah to de-escalate

A Lebanese hospital is in ruins and people flee a Beirut suburb after Israel's threat, in photos - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including a father and his son and daughter, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting.

Israel threatened on Monday to strike Beirut’s southern suburbs, causing panic in the Lebanese capital as thousands fled to safer areas and Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel. Israeli forces recently made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years, but Beirut has been mostly spared over the past six weeks, apart from two targeted attacks on the city’s southern suburbs in May.

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