War

Israeli air strikes have killed at least 19 people in southern Lebanon, the country’s health ministry has said, the BBC reports.
Ten of them, including three children and three women, were killed in a single attack that hit a house in the town of Deir Qanoun, the ministry said.
Lebanon was drawn into the war on 2 March, when the Iran-backed armed Shia Islamist group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader.
The latest deaths less than a week after the US said that Lebanon and Israel had agreed to extend a ceasefire by 45 days, with the two sides set to resume talks at the beginning of June.
Despite the extension, both Israel and Hezbollah have continued to exchange fire, especially in southern Lebanon.
Israel says it is targeting the armed group Hezbollah but civilians have often been killed, including women and children. Hezbollah has fired rockets and drones into communities in northern Israel and against Israeli troops occupying parts of southern Lebanon.