Israeli attack across Lebanon kills at least 19 | Israel attacks Lebanon News

There is no end to Israel’s brutal attacks despite the US ban on the ceasefire, with new talks expected next week.

Israel’s offensive across Lebanon killed at least 19 people despite the United States calling for a ceasefire, which is in its third week.

In a statement on Saturday, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said an Israeli attack on the town of al-Saksakieh in the southern province of Sidon killed at least seven people, including a child, and injured 15, including three children.

Elsewhere, an Israeli attack killed a Syrian man and his daughter in Nabatieh; three people in Nahrain; three in Saadiyat; three others in Habousi; and another in Mefdoun.

The attack comes despite last month’s cease-fire aimed at halting fighting with the Hezbollah militia. Since April 16, Israeli forces have killed nearly 500 people, bringing the total number of people killed since Israel’s attack and bombing of Lebanon on March 2 to more than 2,750, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Israeli army separately issued new orders to evacuate several towns as they continue to push into southern Lebanon, maintaining a buffer zone that prevents the return of thousands. not transferred people and demolishing buildings in it.

Reports from Tyre, southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto, said that there are no signs of stopping the fighting on the ground as the number of people killed as a result of Israeli “violence” throughout the day “increases”.

Later on Saturday, Lebanese state media reported airstrikes on several towns in southern Lebanon. There was no immediate information on casualties.

The attack comes a day after the US announced that it would mediate a second round of talks between Israel and Lebanon on May 14 and 15, although Lebanese officials want the Israeli army to stop fighting before the talks.

The talks in Washington, DC will advance “a peace and security agreement that is of major concern to both countries”, the US State Department said in a statement on Friday.

Also on Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun received former Lebanese Ambassador Simon Karam, who is leading the Lebanese delegation in the talks, and gave him “advice before going to Washington”, according to a statement from the Lebanese president.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah, which was not included in the US-mediated talks, continues to attack Israeli positions.

The group said on Saturday it had launched separate shelling on Israeli positions in the southern Lebanese towns of Biyyada and Rachaf, as well as a drone attack on the border town of Misgav Am, according to state media. Hezbollah also said it attacked a D9 bulldozer belonging to the Israeli army in the town of al-Abbad.

Separately, the Israeli military said on Saturday several explosive drones entered Israeli territory, while others fell into the country. It also said that air defense intercepted a number of projectiles launched at forces operating in southern Lebanon.

On Friday, drones launched by Hezbollah bombed northern Israel near the Lebanese border, injuring at least three Israeli soldiers.