Israeli military has carried out attacks on Lebanese city’s southern suburbs without advance warnings over recent weeks
Rescuers work at the site of an Israel i air strike in the southern Lebanese village of Toul. Photograph: ABBAS FAKIH/AFP via Getty Imagesearly on Wednesday morning, Reuters witnesses said, hours after the United States said it opposed the scope of Israel i attacks in the city amid a rising death toll and fears of wider regional escalation.
Israeli military evacuation orders were also affecting more than a quarter of Lebanon, according to the UN refugee agency, two weeks after Israel began incursions into the south of the country that it says are aimed at pushing back Hizbullah.On Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the US had expressed its concerns to prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s administration on the recent strikes.
Lebanese security sources said at the time that Hizbullah official Wafiq Safa was the target but that he had survived. There was no comment from Israel. The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had captured three members of Hizbullah's elite Radwan forces and they had been moved to Israel for investigation. Hizbullah has not commented.
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