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At least eight killed in Israeli drone strikes on highway south of Beirut

Al Jazeera·Al Jazeera Staff·6 months ago
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There were three strikes on cars on the highway in Jiyeh and the dead included two children, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said.

Three Israeli drone strikes on cars on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon have killed at least eight people, including two children, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported.

A photograph of the bombed cars shared by Lebanon’s National News Agency following the attacks on Wednesday in the Jiyeh area, some 20km (12 miles) south of the Lebanese capital, showed the vehicles severely damaged, their exteriors charred and torn apart.

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Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, said the “conflict is only escalating ”.

“It is a conflict that is taking a high…

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