Israel Strikes South Lebanon Ahead of Nasrallah Funeral

People hold pictures of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes last year, as they walk together to attend his public funeral ceremony in Beirut, Lebanon February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
People hold pictures of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes last year, as they walk together to attend his public funeral ceremony in Beirut, Lebanon February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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Israel Strikes South Lebanon Ahead of Nasrallah Funeral

People hold pictures of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes last year, as they walk together to attend his public funeral ceremony in Beirut, Lebanon February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
People hold pictures of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes last year, as they walk together to attend his public funeral ceremony in Beirut, Lebanon February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Lebanese state media reported Israeli strikes Sunday about 10 kilometers from the southern border as mourners converged in Beirut for the massive funeral of the group's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah.

"Hostile aircraft launched two raids targeting the area between Qleileh and Sammaaiyah in the Tyre district," the official National News Agency said.

Israel's military said it struck rocket launchers in southern Lebanon which it said threatened civilians

"A short while ago, the IDF (military) conducted a precise intelligence-based strike on a military site containing rocket launchers and weapons in Lebanese territory, in which Hezbollah activity was identified," a military statement said. "Additionally, several rocket launchers that posed an imminent threat to Israeli civilians were struck in southern Lebanon."

Nasrallah was killed by Israel nearly five months ago in a huge strike on south Beirut, at the start of the all-out war.

An Israeli military statement on Saturday said Israeli forces "conducted a strike on border crossings on the Syria-Lebanon border through which the Hezbollah terrorist organization has attempted to smuggle weapons into Lebanon."

"These smuggling attempts are a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon," the statement said, referring to the November truce that ended more than a year of hostilities including two months of war.

Saturday's army statement said Israeli forces "will operate to prevent any attempt by the Hezbollah terrorist organization to rebuild its forces."



Israel Strikes a Charity Kitchen and a Tent in Gaza, Killing at Least 9

 Palestinians walk next to a tent camp for displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip in west of Gaza Strip, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP)
Palestinians walk next to a tent camp for displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip in west of Gaza Strip, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP)
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Israel Strikes a Charity Kitchen and a Tent in Gaza, Killing at Least 9

 Palestinians walk next to a tent camp for displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip in west of Gaza Strip, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP)
Palestinians walk next to a tent camp for displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip in west of Gaza Strip, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP)

At least nine Palestinians were killed Wednesday in two separate Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza, medics said.

One strike hit a group of Palestinians gathered outside a charity providing hot meals in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

At least five people, including a woman and her adult daughter, were killed in the strike, according to the Awda hospital, which received the casualties.

A separate strike on a tent killed a father, mother and their daughter in the town of Zwaeida, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah. The hospital said the explosion tore the man's body in half.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment.