{"id":118461,"date":"2026-05-17T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118461\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:32:08","slug":"lebanon-says-israeli-strikes-kill-7-as-hezbollah-condemns-talks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118461\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill 7 as Hezbollah condemns talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israeli strikes killed seven people in Lebanon on Sunday, including an Islamic Jihad commander, Lebanese authorities and state media said, despite a fragile ceasefire as Hezbollah called US-brokered talks between the two countries a \u201cdead end\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The health ministry published a \u201cpreliminary toll\u201d for Israel\u2019s strikes on Sunday, with three people killed in the town of Tayr Felsay, including a child, and two killed in the town of Tayr Debba, including another child.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It said 11 people were wounded in those strikes and four more were wounded in strikes in two other southern towns.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Later Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said an Israeli missile strike around midnight on a flat on the outskirts of the city of Baalbek in the country\u2019s east had killed Islamic Jihad commander Wael Abdel Halim and his 17-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Despite the ceasefire, Israel continues to strike widely in southern Lebanon and issues frequent evacuation warnings to towns and villages across the south.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two Israeli strikes also hit the town of Sohmor in eastern Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley on Sunday, the state-run NNA said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Israeli army later issued an evacuation warning to four villages near the southern coastal city of Sidon, dozens of kilometres from the border area, which were also subject to an evacuation warning on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes killed seven people in Lebanon on Sunday, including an Islamic Jihad commander, Lebanese authorities and state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[4171,5100,41,100,40635,34,40632,37,93,10274,12082,20644,40633,40634,1705],"class_list":["post-118461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-baalbek","tag-bekaa-valley","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-hezbollah","tag-hussein-hajj-hassan","tag-iran","tag-islamic-jihad","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-national-news-agency","tag-sidon","tag-sohmor","tag-tayr-debba","tag-tayr-felsay","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116592531368108302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118461","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=118461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}