News From Antiwar.com By Jason Ditz
Yesterday, the US hosted a ceasefire monitoring committee meeting in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Naqoura. It was seen as historic because both Lebanese and Israeli officials attended, the first direct talks between the two nations in over 40 years.
Hopes this might cool tensions, however, didn’t last particularly long, as the next morning, Israel was carrying out airstrikes against multiple towns in southern Lebanon, and issued an evacuation order for the civilian populations in those towns.
Targeted were the towns of Jbaa, Mahrouna, Mjadel, and Baraachit, because the IDF claimed those four towns had major Hezbollah weapons depots, and those depots just happened to be in the most densely populated parts of the residential districts…
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