First responders gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area in the suburbs of the southern Lebanon coastal city of Tyre. AFP
The ministry said the toll is now 3,020 in the Israeli strikes that has not stopped despite the ceasefire, including 292 women and 211 children. Fighting began on March 2, two days after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.
Israel has since invaded southern Lebanon and bombarded the capital, Beirut, and other areas, and occupied further area from Lebanon.
More than a million people have been displaced in Lebanon by the Israeli attacks, with some sheltering in tents along roads and the sea in Beirut.
Groundbreaking direct talks between Israel and Lebanon, facilitated by the United States, produced the ceasefire that began on April 17 and has been extended into June. The neighbours have been officially in a state of war since Israel invaded LEbanon in 1982.
However, Israeli raids on Lebanon have not stopped since the ceasefire was declared, and hundreds of Lebanese have been killed in various parts of the country.
Lebanese officials have said they seek a security agreement or armistice that would stop short of normalisation, while Israel is focused on disarming the resistance to occupation like it did in Palestine.
U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly called for a meeting between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Aoun has declined to meet or speak directly with Netanyahu at this stage — a move that would likely draw blowback in Lebanon, where talks with Israel have been met with protests.
U.N. peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon have also been caught in the crossfire, mainly by Israeli continues and sometimes deliberate attacks, and six have been killed.
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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