Israeli air attack kills at least two in southern Lebanon

Israeli air attacks killed two people and injured another in Deir Amas in Lebanon’s Tyre district. Additional raids struck Braiqaa in the south, destroying two homes. Strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon the previous day killed at least 31 people and injured 40 others. Further attacks hit Machgharah in the western Bekaa and targeted the strategic Qaraoun Dam. An air attack in Burj Shemali killed several people, including two children and three women, and wounded 16 others. Evacuation and forced displacement orders were issued for Nabatieh city and dozens of towns and villages in the south and east, warning residents to move north ahead of attacks. Netanyahu said a large ground force was pushing deep to seize areas and fortify a security zone.

"An Israeli air attack has killed two people and injured another in the town of Deir Amas in the Tyre district, Lebanese state media reported, as the Israeli military expanded its operations across the war-battered country. The army also carried out several air raids in the town of Braiqaa in the south, destroying two homes, the National News Agency (NNA) reported, as millions of people observed the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday."

"Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said Israeli attacks across southern and eastern Lebanon killed at least 31 people and left 40 others injured. Massive Israeli strikes pounded eastern Lebanon, hitting Machgharah in the western Bekaa, and another strike further north targeting the strategic Qaraoun Dam, Al Jazeera's Obaida Hitto reported from Tyre in southern Lebanon, elaborating on Tuesday's attacks in eastern Lebanon."

"In the village of Burj Shemali in Tyre, an Israeli air attack on Tuesday killed several people, including two children and three women, and wounded 16 others, among them five children and six women. Over a period of some 10 hours on Tuesday, the Israeli military also issued forced displacement orders for dozens of Lebanese towns and villages in the south and east of the country, as well as the entire city of Nabatieh."

"Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late on Tuesday that a large Israeli ground force was pushing deep into southern Lebanon to seize areas and to fortify what he described as a security zone in the neighbouring country. The orders to flee in advance of Israeli attacks also warned residents of the targeted areas to move north o"

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