Lebanon: One Person Killed, Three Students Injured in Israeli Drone Strike in Nabatieh

Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Kafar Hamam, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Kafar Hamam, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Lebanon: One Person Killed, Three Students Injured in Israeli Drone Strike in Nabatieh

Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Kafar Hamam, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Kafar Hamam, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

An Israeli drone hit a vehicle on a road in Nabatieh in South Lebanon, killing one person and injuring three students.
The Israeli drone missile hit a vehicle early on Thursday on the Kfar Dajjal road south of Nabatieh, killing one person. The vehicle was up in flames, according to Lebanese media outlets.
The missile hit the vehicle at the same time a bus full of students was passing close to the car, which left three students injured.

Civil Defense and Red Cross rescue teams transported the injured to the nearest hospital for treatment. No further details were reported.

Israeli forces have attacked several Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including border surveillance outposts, caches of missiles and other weaponry and command centers.

Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, particularly since the Israeli incursion into the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. It has struck deeper inside Israel and introduced new and more advanced weaponry.



US Intelligence: War Between Israel and Hezbollah Nearing

Israel’s air-defense missiles intercept rockets launched by Hezbollah near the Lebanese border (Reuters)
Israel’s air-defense missiles intercept rockets launched by Hezbollah near the Lebanese border (Reuters)
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US Intelligence: War Between Israel and Hezbollah Nearing

Israel’s air-defense missiles intercept rockets launched by Hezbollah near the Lebanese border (Reuters)
Israel’s air-defense missiles intercept rockets launched by Hezbollah near the Lebanese border (Reuters)

US intelligence said a large-scale confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah is likely to break out in the next several weeks if Israel and Hamas fail to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza, according to an article published by Politico.

US officials are trying to convince both sides to deescalate — a task that would be significantly easier with a ceasefire in place in Gaza.

But that agreement is in tense negotiations and US officials are not confident Israel and Hamas will agree to the deal on the table in the near future, the newspaper said Thursday.

It quoted two senior US officials as saying that the Israeli army and Hezbollah have drafted battle plans and are in the process of trying to procure additional weapons.

According to Politico, both sides have publicly said they do not want to go to war, but senior Biden officials increasingly believe that intense fighting is likely to break out despite efforts to try and prevent it.

Another senior US official told the newspaper that the risk is higher now than at any other point in recent weeks.

The official, like others in this story, was granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive intelligence.

The US intelligence offers a slightly more conservative assessment than those coming from parts of Europe.

Some European countries calculate that a war between Israel and Hezbollah could happen in days.

Many have advised their citizens to leave Lebanon. Canada is also preparing to evacuate thousands from the country.

The State Department on Thursday issued a travel advisory for US citizens, urging them to “strongly reconsider” travel to Lebanon.

Two of the senior officials stressed that it was unclear when exactly the war could start but noted that Israel is trying to rebuild its stockpiles and troop capacity quickly.