The mayor of one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon has been killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit the city’s municipal headquarters during a meeting to coordinate aid deliveries to residents and those displaced by war.

The strike, one of a series on Nabatieh on Wednesday morning, killed 16 people and wounded 52, the Lebanese health ministry said. Howaida Turk, the governor of Nabatieh province, said members of the provincial capital’s crisis committee were meeting at the time.

It was the most significant Israeli hit yet on a Lebanese state institution since fighting between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah broke out a year ago, and followed a week of intensifying aerial bombardment across Lebanon.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    508 hours ago

    Note how Israel isn’t even at war with Lebanon. They’re ostensibly at war with Hezbollah.

    • @[email protected]
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      466 hours ago

      “Lebanon is Hezbollah”. The newest hit single by the IDF known for songs like “UN is Hamas” and “elementary school girl is Hamas”

      • @michaelmrose
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        -124 hours ago

        Hezbollah

        A paramilitary organization that operations openly with the support of Lebanon and her people. Anyone at war with Hezbollah is at war with Lebanon.

        • @Maggoty
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          63 hours ago

          Yup the 40 percent of Lebanon that are Christians support and aid the extremist Islamic political movement in their country.

          Fuck off.