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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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William Christou in Beirut

Israeli strike kills Lebanese mayor at meeting to coordinate aid deliveries

Destroyed cars, buildings and rubble
Rubble and destroyed vehicles fill the streets of Nabatieth after intense Israeli airstrikes. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty

The mayor of one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon has been killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit the city’s municipal headquarters during a meeting to coordinate aid deliveries to residents and those displaced by war.

The strike, one of a series on Nabatieh on Wednesday morning, killed 16 people and wounded 52, the Lebanese health ministry said. Howaida Turk, the governor of Nabatieh province, said members of the provincial capital’s crisis committee were meeting at the time.

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