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Israel has launched more than 50 attacks across Lebanon in the past 24 hours, raising fears that the escalating violence could unravel the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, reigniting a broader regional conflict.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency said an Israeli air strike on the southern town of Hannawiya killed one person and wounded another on Friday. The agency also reported that Israeli forces destroyed residential areas in Aita al-Shaab, with additional attacks on al-Majadel in the Tyre district.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s team on the ground reported that Israeli forces blew up homes in the town of Hanine in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n The Lebanese group Hezbollah responded by firing rockets towards settlements in northern Israel, including Kiryat Shmona, Metula and Misgav Am. In a statement posted on Telegram, fighters said \u201cthese attacks would continue until the Israeli-American aggression against the country and the people stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n Hezbollah also said it targeted Israel\u2019s Ashdod naval base with missiles, two days after deadly Israeli air attacks on Beirut left more than 300 people dead.<\/p>\n The attack was in response to Israel\u2019s \u201cviolation of the ceasefire and its repeated attacks on Beirut, and after the Resistance adhered to the ceasefire while the enemy did not\u201d, the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n Despite the escalation in the south, Al Jazeera\u2019s Zeina Khodr reported a relative lull in Beirut, following Israel\u2019s large-scale deadly assault on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019ve noticed in the past 24 hours or so is that the tempo of Israeli strikes has been reduced, at least in the Beirut area,\u201d Khodr said.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, there\u2019s still military activity in the south of Lebanon but really a marked reduction in strikes in Beirut \u2013 whether or not this is intentional or not. But the Israeli media is making it clear, and quoting Israeli officials, that there is US pressure on the Israeli government to de-escalate this conflict in Lebanon,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it had received assurances that two hospitals in Beirut included in an Israeli forced evacuation order would not be attacked. About 450 patients remain inside Rafik Hariri University Hospital and Al Zahraa Hospital, as evacuation is not feasible, said Dr Abdinasir Abubakar.<\/p>\n The pressure to end the conflict comes amid food security warnings from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re witnessing is not just a displacement crisis, it is rapidly becoming a food security crisis,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Lebanon country director, Allison Oman, speaking via videolink from Beirut on Friday.<\/p>\n She warned that food is becoming increasingly unaffordable due to rising prices and higher demand from displaced families, and as the Iran war disrupts supply routes.<\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he ordered direct negotiations with Lebanon \u201cas soon as possible\u201d. Diplomatic efforts appear limited, however.<\/p>\n A senior Lebanese official told the Reuters news agency on Friday that \u2060Lebanon \u2060intends to join a \u2060meeting next week in \u2060Washington with US and Israeli representatives to discuss and \u200cannounce a ceasefire. Beirut considers it a precondition for further talks \u200cto reach a broader deal \u200cwith Israel.<\/p>\n But a senior Lebanese source told the Anadolu news agency that the planned talks in Washington will be preliminary.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe meeting at the US State Department next week is preparatory, not a negotiation,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n The latest violence began days after Israel and the US launched their war on Iran on February 28. An attack by Hezbollah struck Israel on March 2, after which Israel launched an air campaign and ground operations in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n The humanitarian toll continues to rise. The UN children\u2019s agency, UNICEF, warned that escalating attacks are having \u201ca devastating and inhumane toll on children\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAs news of a regional ceasefire agreement briefly ignited hope across the country, deadly Israeli air strikes struck across Lebanon, reportedly killing 33 children and injuring 153,\u201d the agency said on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe latest bloodshed adds to a staggering 600 children either killed or injured in Lebanon since 2 March,\u201d said the agency, adding that it has received reports of children missing, separated from their families and being pulled from under the rubble.<\/p>\n Nearly 390,000 children are among more than one million people displaced, UNICEF said.<\/p>\n Human Rights Watch said Israeli attacks have crippled important infrastructure in the south, including bridges over the Litani River.<\/p>\n \u201cBetween March 12 and April 8, Israeli forces systematically destroyed or severely damaged all main bridges connecting areas south of the Litani River to the rest of the country,\u201d the group said, adding that only one main crossing remains operational.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Israel has launched more than 50 attacks across Lebanon in the past 24 hours, raising fears that the escalating violence could unravel the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, reigniting a broader regional conflict. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency said an Israeli air strike on the southern town of Hannawiya killed one person and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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