{"id":111589,"date":"2026-05-13T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111589\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:13:11","slug":"at-least-eight-killed-in-israeli-drone-strikes-on-highway-south-of-beirut-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111589\/","title":{"rendered":"At least eight killed in Israeli drone strikes on highway south of Beirut | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were three strikes on cars on the highway in Jiyeh and the dead included two children, Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Health said.<\/p>\n

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Published On 13 May 202613 May 2026<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Ministry of Health reported.<\/p>\n

A photograph of the bombed cars shared by Lebanon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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Al Jazeera\u2019s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, said the \u201cconflict is only escalating<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a conflict that is taking a high toll on the civilians who live in these areas,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lebanon and Israel are expected to hold a new round of direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday, brokered by the United States.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah, which has been launching attacks on northern Israel and on Israeli troops who have entered and occupied a section of southern Lebanon, says it opposes the negotiations in the US.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for the residents of Meiss el-Jabal, Yanouh, Burj Shemali, Hula, Debl and Aabbasiyyeh, warning that it will soon act against these six southern Lebanese villages \u201cforcefully\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anyone who remains \u201cendangers their life,\u201d the military said, warning residents to move at least 1,000 metres (0.6 miles) away to \u201copen areas\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"FirstFirst responders carry the body of a victim at the site of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a vehicle in the town of Jiyeh [Fadel Itani\/AFP]<\/p>\n

After this new round of forced displacement orders \u2013 which have been happening almost daily in the past week \u2013 Al Jazeera\u2019s Khodr said one of the few remaining hospitals in the area was in the displacement zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are only three left in the whole district of Tyre, and there are still people who live here. At least 100,000 people still live here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese hospitals are really a lifeline for these people, but some of them, those who are injured, don\u2019t make it because the road is a long journey to reach these hospitals and people are still in villages further south.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, 13 people were killed in attacks on towns in the south, including two Lebanese Civil Defence paramedics, Hussein Jaber and Ahmad Noura, according to Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Public Health.<\/p>\n

The ministry reported<\/a> that at least 380 people have been killed during the truce, bringing the total death toll since the Israeli invasion and bombardment began on March 2 to more than 2,800.<\/p>\n

It also said on Monday that 108 emergency medical services and healthcare workers had been killed in Lebanon during the war, with more than 140 Israeli attacks recorded on ambulances and medical facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this is having a huge impact here on the communities in southern Lebanon,\u201d Al Jazeera\u2019s Obaida Hitto said from Tyre. \u201cAnd there is a growing humanitarian crisis, with over a million people displaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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