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Israeli strike kills Lebanese mayor at meeting to coordinate aid deliveries (www.theguardian.com)

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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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[–] brucethemoose 91 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is horrible. What was ostensibly the target, the article mentions nothing about that.

The strikes defied what Mikati had told Al Jazeera just a day earlier were assurances given by the US that Israel would reduce its attacks on Beirut.

...Does the US have any credibility left when it comes to assuring others what Israel will do?

[–] Maggoty 16 points 2 months ago

Nope. That was gone months ago. All they've done for most of a year is repeat whatever Israel says. Even when Israel immediately makes them liars.

[–] sorval_the_eeter 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What was ostensibly the target, the article mentions nothing about that.

I think even the Israelis are tired of lying about it. Why even bother anymore? The UN and iCC are more or less disbanded. The US shields them policially and militarily. The American leaders and voters of both parties are overwhelmingly on board. Even American college students are cowed. There is no resistence now and there wont be any in the next 4 years, across the globe. They can do and say whatever they want.