{"id":256,"date":"2026-05-28T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:08:22","slug":"israeli-strikes-kill-at-least-14-across-southern-lebanon-ahead-of-washington-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes kill at least 14 across southern Lebanon ahead of Washington talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BEIRUT (AP) \u2014 The Israeli military early Thursday pounded Lebanon\u2019s fourth-largest city, killing at least 14 people across the south of the country in its ongoing <span>military escalation<\/span> against the Hezbollah group ahead of crucial talks in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=254\">Carney warns Alberta independence vote from Canada could echo Brexit as a \u2018dangerous bluff\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among those killed in the flurry of strikes were five women and children and a Lebanese soldier. Dozens of others were wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry and the state-run National News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli soldier meanwhile was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack in northern Israel, the Israeli military said.<\/p>\n<p>The intensification comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an <span>expansion in the Israeli military\u2019s attacks in Lebanon<\/span>, apparently sparked by Hezbollah\u2019s use of fiber-optic exploding drones that have struck Israeli troops in Lebanon and reached some of Israel\u2019s northern border towns.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lebanese and Israeli military officials are set to hold their first security talks on Friday in the U.S. capital. The talks have extended a nominal ceasefire that went into effect April 17, although the attacks have since intensified, while sparing the Lebanese capital Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has dismissed the talks and instead endorsed its key ally Iran, which has made ending the war in Lebanon a condition for its own <span>talks with Washington brokered by Pakistan<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the attacks on Thursday, Israeli military Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued warnings to eight buildings in the coastal city of Tyre along the Mediterranean and surrounding neighborhoods. Many people have fled the area. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<!-- AP \"Read More\" embed (place mid-article) --><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further north in the city of Sidon, an Israeli drone struck an apartment building where some displaced families lived, killing five people and wounding 21 others, among them five children. Among the killed was Hossan Zeidan who once was a correspondent for Iran\u2019s Arabic-language al-Aalam television.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mohammad Al-Gharbi, who lived across the street from the building in Sidon, woke to the sound of the explosion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in my room when part of the wall and shattered glass fell on me, and everything was thrown into chaos,\u201d he said. \u201cThis building that was hit had six apartments occupied by poor families who had fled from the south to escape the attacks there, only to be hit here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=252\">A fire at a girls\u2019 school in central Kenya causes deaths and injuries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the nearby coastal town of Adloun, an Israeli drone struck a car with a family that was fleeing, killing six people, of which four were two children and their parents, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. Another drone strike that came without warning killed two people on a motorcycle near Tyre. The target of the attack was not immediately clear, NNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere near the city of Nabatiyeh, the Lebanese military said a soldier was killed in an Israeli drone strike while he was driving his motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said Thursday that a soldier in northern Israel was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack and two reservists were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has claimed dozens of drone and rocket attacks that it says targeted Israeli troops in southern Lebanon and northern Israel. The group said Thursday it has launched several attacks on Israeli troops and tanks that have crossed the Litani River into the town of Zawtar al-Sharqieh near Nabatiyeh, as close-range fighting continues.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over 1 million people in Lebanon have been displaced by the <span>war between Israel and Hezbollah<\/span>, which was sparked when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel on March 2 in solidarity with Iran, two days after the <span>Iran war<\/span> began.<\/p>\n<p>At least 3,269 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the start of the war, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, with over 9,800 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>According to Netanyahu\u2019s office, at least 23 Israeli soldiers and a defense contractor have been killed in or near southern Lebanon and two civilians have been killed in northern Israel, the vast majority by drones.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press journalists Bassem Mroue in Beirut and Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=250\">Under President Milei\u2019s austerity, disabled Argentines risk losing essential services<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli military has intensified its attacks on Lebanon, killing at least 14 people, including five women and children, and a Lebanese soldier. 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