Israel kills a Lebanese mayor during official meeting
An Israeli air strike on the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon has killed the city’s mayor along with at least five other people, and wounded several others.
Mayor Ahmad Kheil was conducting a daily crisis management meeting in the city’s municipal building when it was bombed Wednesday morning.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Israel deliberately targeted the meeting.
“The mayor of Nabatieh, among others … was martyred. It’s a massacre,” Nabatieh Governor Howaida Turk told AFP.
The governor reported 11 strikes on the city and its surroundings.
Emergency workers in the area said Israeli bombardment also destroyed a medical facility near the municipal building, killing two doctors.