{"id":113482,"date":"2026-05-14T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:55:08","slug":"two-killed-as-israel-ramps-up-southern-lebanon-attacks-ahead-of-us-talks-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113482\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed as Israel ramps up southern Lebanon attacks ahead of US talks | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes targeted the Ezzedine residential project in Srifa on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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Israel has ramped up its attacks on southern Lebanon, killing two people and issuing several forced displacement orders as the two sides prepare for United States-brokered talks on extending a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Thursday morning that Israeli warplanes targeted the Ezzedine residential project in the town of Srifa, killing two people.<\/p>\n

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The Israeli army announced in a post on Telegram that it had begun targeting alleged Hezbollah infrastructure sites in several areas in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Israeli army\u2019s Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, announced on X the forced evacuation orders for the towns and villages of Libbaya, Sahmar, Taffahata, Kafr Malek, Yohmor (Bekaa), Ain Tineh, Houmin al-Fawqa and Mazraat Sina.<\/p>\n

NNA reported that one person was injured following a raid by an Israeli drone near the vocational school between the towns of Breqa and Zrarieh.<\/p>\n

An air strike was also reported on the town of Ain al-Tineh in the Western Bekaa.<\/p>\n

Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera\u2019s Rory Challands said in the past few days Israel has launched one of its \u201cmost intense periods of aerial bombardment in weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been many individual strikes \u2013 usually by drones \u2013 on cars and motorbikes. Several of these have happened on the main coastal highway that leads south from Beirut,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday, at least 2,896 people<\/a> have been killed in Israeli attacks since the conflict resumed in early March.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Israeli army announced on Telegram that a drone launched by Hezbollah had fallen in Israeli territory near the shared border, injuring several people who were evacuated to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

Israel-Lebanon talks<\/p>\n

Representatives from both sides are expected to meet in Washington, DC, on Thursday for a new round of talks aimed at extending the ceasefire, which is scheduled to expire on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussions are controversial here in Lebanon. One of the reasons is that Hezbollah is not at the table. Hezbollah doesn\u2019t want these talks to go ahead at all,\u201d Challands explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt says any direct discussions between Lebanon and Israel are basically capitulation. It wants first a full-on ceasefire, for Israel to have withdrawn from the country, for hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return to their homes, and for reconstruction to have started,\u201d he said, adding that the Lebanese government, however, believes these points can be discussed during the talks with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes targeted the Ezzedine residential project in Srifa on Thursday morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,47,93,49,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-113482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116572803941862428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}