{"id":249906,"date":"2026-08-15T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/249906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:52:08","slug":"israeli-strike-kills-7-in-south-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/249906\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike kills 7 in south Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-text\">Seven people were \u200bkilled in \u2060an Israeli dawn air strike in southern Lebanon \u200con Saturday, Lebanon&#8217;s state news \u200cagency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">Three others were injured when Israeli planes struck a house in the southern village of Ansar, Lebanon&#8217;s National News Agency said. The strike is \u200cone of the deadliest attacks on Lebanon in the weeks since it \u2060agreed to a US-mediated peace framework with Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">The terms leave Israeli troops inside occupied southern Lebanon until Hizbollah is disarmed and the Lebanese army takes control, terms the Iran-backed militia has rejected as surrender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">&#8220;The framework agreement&#8230;is an Israeli order written in Israeli ink that the Lebanese authorities \u200bhave signed onto,&#8221; Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said during a \u200cspeech on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"uk-cover\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gulftoday.ae\/gulftoday\/uploads\/images\/2026\/08\/15\/1103699.webp\" alt=\"Israeli strike kills 7 in south Lebanon\" onerror=\"this.src=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>First responders searches for survivors amidst the rubble on the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Ansar, Lebanon, on Saturday. AFP<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"uk-cover\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gulftoday.ae\/gulftoday\/uploads\/images\/2026\/08\/15\/1103700.webp\" alt=\"Israeli strike kills 7 in south Lebanon\" onerror=\"this.src=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>First responders evacuate a body from the rubble. AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">In a statement, the Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure overnight in what it described as a security zone in south \u2060Lebanon in response to actions against its soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">Israel&#8217;s military seized a swath of south Lebanon during a war with Hizbollah earlier this year, which was triggered \u200bwhen \u200cthe group fired at Israel two days into the US-Israeli war \u200con Iran. Israel has said it will keep its forces there to shield northern Israel from further attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">During a visit to south Lebanon on Thursday, defence \u200cminister Israel Katz \u200csaid Israel would not withdraw from \u2060the regions it controls until Hizbollah is disarmed. A \u200cUS State Department official said that a permanent Israeli military presence in the area was not consistent with commitments set \u2060out in the deal with Lebanon&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">At least 4,300 people \u200bhave been killed in Lebanon in the latest round of hostilities since March 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven people were \u200bkilled in \u2060an Israeli dawn air strike in southern Lebanon \u200con Saturday, Lebanon&#8217;s state news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[84,37,1620,93],"class_list":["post-249906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-attack","tag-israel","tag-killing","tag-lebanon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117098679353136289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249906","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=249906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}