{"id":57254,"date":"2026-05-13T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=57254"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:45:15","slug":"israel-strikes-southern-lebanon-8-dead-in-attacks-on-cars-south-of-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=57254","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Southern Lebanon, 8 Dead in Attacks on Cars South of Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli military said it launched a new wave of strikes across southern Lebanon Wednesday, despite a truce with the Lebanese government to halt fighting with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IDF has begun striking Hezbollah terror infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon,&#8221; the military said, hours after issuing fresh evacuation warnings for six villages in the Tyre region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-align=\"center\" data-caption=\"Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern area of Burj al-Shamali, as seen from the city of Tyre on May 13, 2026. (Photo by KAWANT HAJU \/ AFP)\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e64f5bda-df8f-4a33-9edd-360425719166\" src=\"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1539442.jpeg\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" width=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israeli strikes also targeted several cars on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks took place near Jiyeh and Barja. Eight people, including a woman and her child, were killed in the attacks, the Public Health Emergency Operations Center said.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, similar strikes targeted two other cars in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has kept up airstrikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah despite a truce since April 17 aimed at halting the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 13 people were killed in attacks on towns in the south, according to Lebanon&#8217;s health ministry, which said a total of 380 people had been killed since the start of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The violence came with Lebanon and Israel due to hold a new round of direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday, brokered by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.aawsat.com\/node\/5272702\">Original Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli military said it launched a new wave of strikes across southern Lebanon Wednesday, despite a truce with the Lebanese government to halt fighting with Hezbollah. &#8220;The IDF has begun striking Hezbollah terror infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon,&#8221; the military said, hours after issuing fresh evacuation warnings for six villages in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57256,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-05-13T11:45:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"c90e1f71-424c-4edb-9cc5-1967c04898a2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-05-13T11:45:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyQ4fcUJMTtucxRlnwEiYog","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arab-world"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57258,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57254\/revisions\/57258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}