Israeli airstrikes continue in southern Lebanon despite truce, targeting Nabatiyé and injuring paramedics
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Israeli aviation targeted several locations in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to state media and AFP correspondents. This follows a strike on Wednesday in the southern suburbs that killed a military official of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah. The city of Nabatiyé was particularly affected, with strikes on a shopping center and residential buildings. These Israeli strikes continue despite a truce that began on April 17 and also hit other southern regions, according to the National News Agency. The Israeli army ordered residents of three southern villages, located far from the border, to evacuate on Thursday. An ambulance from the Islamic Health Committee, affiliated with Hezbollah, was targeted on the road from Toul village to Nabatiyé, injuring two paramedics, according to the organization's spokesperson, Mahmoud Karaki. On Wednesday, 11 people were killed in strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Health. Additionally, four Israeli soldiers were injured, one seriously, on Wednesday by an explosive drone, according to an Israeli military statement released Thursday. Hezbollah claims responsibility for attacks against Israeli forces occupying areas in the south of the country, despite the truce. On Wednesday evening, a strike targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, for the first time in nearly a month. The spokesperson for the Israeli army in Arabic stated on Thursday that the head of Hezbollah's elite unit, the al-Rad
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