13 killed in Israeli strike on Tyre just before Lebanon truce
Israeli strikes on Tyre in southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people just before the 10-day ceasefire with Israel took effect at midnight, a city official said on Friday.
The official, who asked not to be identified, said another 35 people were injured, and emergency workers were still searching the rubble for another "15 missing".
The strikes targeted six residential buildings which were destroyed, and came just minutes before midnight, an AFP correspondent said.
Al-Najda al Shaabiya Hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh was reeling Friday after what officials said was one of the heaviest days of Israeli strikes since the latest Israel-Hezbollah war began.
Hospital Director Mona Abou Zeid said the wounded arrived until around an hour after the ceasefire took effect at midnight.
Mahmoud Sahmarani, 33, said he stepped outside his home to buy charcoal for his shisha water pipe when an Israeli strike killed his father and cousin as they peeled potatoes for lunch.
His five-story apartment building is rubble and his family is homeless, Sahmarani said from his hospital bed, his left eye swollen shut and head swaddled in bandages.
“Israel should have withdrawn from Lebanon,” he said. “If we don’t get them out, they will continue to kill us.”
Source: Agence France Presse
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