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ISRAEL POUNDS HEZBOLLAH STRONGHOLDS IN LEBANON, KILLING MAYOR

A civil defense member of the Islamic Health Authority inspects a site damaged
in an Israeli strike in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon on Wednesday. | REUTERS
By Aya ISKANDARANI and David Stout
AFP-JIJI
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Beirut –

Israel carried out dozens of strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on
Wednesday, killing a city mayor, toppling buildings and causing widespread
destruction in several southern areas.

The latest exchanges in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict came with Israel under
increasing international pressure after U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon were
injured, as well as over the escalating humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza
Strip.





The Israeli military said its warplanes struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in
the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, where the Iran-backed militant group and
its ally Amal hold sway.

Lebanon's health ministry said 16 people were killed and 52 injured in the
strikes on two municipal buildings.

The city's mayor was among the dead, a local official said, adding that the
strikes "formed a kind of belt of fire."

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the attack, saying Israel
"deliberately targeted a meeting of the municipal council that was discussing
the city's services and relief situation."

The United Nations' humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza, said the
"devastating attack claimed the lives of yet more civilians and local
authorities working to provide relief."

Rescuers were searching through rubble for survivors in the southern Lebanese
village of Qana, where Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed three people, the
Lebanese ministry said.

Israel's army said in a statement it had "eliminated" the Qana area's Hezbollah
leader Jalal Mustafa Hariri.


SOUTH BEIRUT HIT

Hezbollah's main stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs was also targeted by
Israeli air strikes and there were further strikes reported in Lebanon's south
and the Bekaa region in the east.

Hezbollah claimed a third rocket attack in 24 hours targeting the northern
Israeli town of Safed.

The Israeli army said that "around 90 projectiles" fired by Hezbollah had
crossed into Israel on Wednesday.

Israel ramped up its bombardment in late September and by the end of the month
sent ground troops across the Lebanese border.

The Israel-Hezbollah war has left at least 1,373 people dead in Lebanon,
according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures, though the real
toll is likely higher.

Iran-backed Hezbollah started low-intensity strikes on Israel in October last
year in support of its ally Hamas, following its Oct. 7 attack that triggered
the Gaza war.

With Hamas weakened, Israel widened the focus of its military operations to
include Lebanon, vowing to fight until tens of thousands of Israelis forced by
Hezbollah's fire to flee their homes can return.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a unilateral cease-fire on
Tuesday, saying it would "not change the security situation."


PRESSURE ON ISRAEL

Israel's government has come under criticism over its strikes in Lebanon,
including from the country's top ally and arms supplier the United States.



A displaced young woman sits by makeshift shelters on a beach in Beirut on
Wednesday. | REUTERS



White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated Washington's criticism
on Wednesday, saying: "We have told Israel directly that we oppose any Israeli
campaign ... of near-daily strikes in densely populated areas of Beirut."

She also said the United States had told Israel its operations should "not
threaten the lives of civilians" U.N. peacekeepers or the Lebanese military.

Earlier, 16 European Union defense ministers called "for maximum political and
diplomatic pressure on Israel" to prevent further incidents against
peacekeepers.

In the latest incident, the UNIFIL peacekeeping force accused Israeli forces of
"firing at their watchtower" in a "direct and apparently deliberate" manner. The
Israeli military did not immediately comment.

Also on Wednesday, the Lebanese Red Cross said two paramedics were wounded in an
Israeli strike on a south Lebanon village while a rescue mission coordinated
with U.N. peacekeepers was under way.

And the World Health Organization warned there is a "very high" risk of cholera
spreading among displaced people in Lebanon, confirming a case of the
potentially deadly infection earlier this week.


FAMINE FEARS IN GAZA

There has been a chorus of international condemnation of the lack of aid
reaching hunger-ravaged Gaza.

In a letter sent to the Israeli government on Sunday, Washington warned it could
withhold weapons deliveries unless more humanitarian aid was delivered.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Wednesday that there was "a
real risk" of famine.

Gaza has "become a kind of wasteland, which I would say is almost unliveable,"
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said.

For over a week, Israeli forces have engaged in a sweeping air and ground
assault targeting northern Gaza and the area around Jabalia, claiming that Hamas
militants were regrouping there.

Palestinian man Nidal al-Arab lost 10 of his family members in Israeli strikes
on Jabalia.

"People are trapped. If they don't die of shelling, they will soon die of thirst
and hunger," the 40-year-old said.

The head of the civil defense agency in northern Gaza, Ahmed al-Kahlout, said
that more than 200,000 people in the area have been "deprived of food aid for
the 12th consecutive day, as well as potable water."

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas
resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to
an AFP tally of official Israeli figures, including hostages killed in
captivity.

The Israeli campaign has killed 42,409 people, the majority civilians, according
to figures from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory which the U.N.
considers reliable.


NUCLEAR SITES STRIKE 'UNLIKELY'

The region is braced for Israel's promised retaliation against its arch-foe Iran
for launching around 200 missiles at Israel on Oct.1.

Iran said the attack was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Beirut days before
that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian general Abbas
Nilforoushan.

Iran said on Wednesday an Israeli attack on its nuclear sites was "very
unlikely" and it could quickly fix any damage.


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