Israel first issued evacuation notice for Nabatieh on Oct 3, but the city's mayor said he would not leave.
BEIRUT - The mayor of a major town in south Lebanon was among 16 people killed when an Israeli airstrike destroyed its municipal headquarters in the biggest attack on an official Lebanese state building since the Israeli air campaign began.
European Union commissioner for crisis management, Mr Janez Lenarcic, said Israel’s “brutal response” to the Hamas attack that started the war had resulted in a devastating humanitarian crisis in Gaza that was now continuing in Lebanon. The US said on Oct 16 it struck five underground weapons storage locations in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, the latest in more than a dozen US attacks on Houthi-linked targets this month.
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel, as seen from Nahariya, northern Israel, on Oct 16. PHOTO: REUTERSIsrael first issued an evacuation notice for Nabatieh, a city of tens of thousands of people, on Oct 3. At the time, the city's Mayor Ahmed Kahil told Reuters he would not leave.
Israel said on Oct 16 it struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in the Nabatieh area and its navy also hit dozens of targets in southern Lebanon. “Unifil infrastructure sites and forces are not a target and every irregular incident will be thoroughly examined,” the military said, adding that Hezbollah has been operating from “sites that have been built within and adjacent to Unifil posts for many years”.
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