Lebanon said 18 people were killed on Friday in Israeli air strikes in the south, while Israel\u2019s military reported its first soldiers killed there since the sealing of a US-Iran deal to halt the Middle East war, including in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Israel had said it was striking Hezbollah targets overnight and into the morning, while the Iran-backed militant group said it was attacking Israeli forces around the southern town of Nabatieh.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe intensive Israeli air strikes carried out from midnight until this morning have prevented the evacuation of the martyrs and wounded, and have resulted in a preliminary toll of 18 martyrs and 33 wounded\u201d in at least 10 villages and towns, the Lebanese health ministry said.<\/p>\n
The strikes were the deadliest since Iran and the United States agreed to halt the wider Middle East war on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military, meanwhile, said Lieutenant Colonel Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon had \u201cfallen in combat\u201d along with three other soldiers it did not immediately identify.<\/p>\n
In a separate statement, it reported a reserve officer was severely wounded \u201cas a result of an explosive drone impact in southern Lebanon\u201d, with four other soldiers lightly injured in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon said 18 people were killed on Friday in Israeli air strikes in the south, while Israel\u2019s military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[52149,52148,38,100,34,37,51915,30305,93,52146,187,7227,51,21001,52147],"class_list":["post-167611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-ali-al-taher-hills","tag-arnoun","tag-donald-trump","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israeli-national-security-minister-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-kfar-tibnit","tag-lebanon","tag-lieutenant-colonel-dor-gedalia-ben-simhon","tag-middle-east-war","tag-nabatieh","tag-united-states","tag-us-iran-deal","tag-us-israeli-military-campaign"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116775982428208566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167611","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=167611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}