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Agence France-Presse

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Sunday he was working to stop the Israel-Hezbollah war, even as Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu told troops in south Lebanon that the fight there was far from over.
The Lebanese Red Cross said in a statement that one of its paramedics had been killed in the south.
They said its teams had been “directly targeted by an Israeli drone” while on a humanitarian mission, even though “the ambulances and their crews bore the protective Red Cross emblem”.
Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Jagan Chapagain, said he was “appalled and saddened” at the killing of a second Lebanese Red Cross volunteer in weeks.

The United Nations peacekeeping force UNIFIL said an Israeli tank rammed its vehicles on two occasions, “in one case causing significant damage”.
Israel says the fragile temporary ceasefire in the wider Middle East war does not apply to its battle with Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
It has kept up its attacks on the country as the militants fight back.
“We will continue to work to stop this war, to ensure the Israeli withdrawal from all our lands,” Salam said in a televised address.
“We are continuing our efforts... to negotiate to stop the war,” he added, ahead of planned talks on Tuesday in Washington between Lebanese, Israeli and US officials.
Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East conflict when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel after US-Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader.

Israel has responded with massive strikes and a ground invasion.
Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces had eliminated the threat of an invasion by Hezbollah militants during a visit to troops in southern Lebanon.
But he added: “There is still more to do, and we are doing it.
“The war continues, including within the security zone in Lebanon,” Netanyahu said in a video released by his office.
Israeli officials have repeatedly said that Israel wants to establish a “security zone” in south Lebanon to help prevent Hezbollah attacks.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Israeli attacks on dozens of locations in the south on Sunday, with additional strikes on the adjacent West Bekaa area.

The health ministry raised the war’s overall toll to more than 2,050 dead, including 165 children and more than 80 health workers.
The Lebanese Red Cross condemned attacks on its personnel as “clear and blatant violations of all provisions of international law”.
Before Sunday’s deadly mission, which also wounded another paramedic, “the necessary contacts were made with UNIFIL for protection and safe passage”, it said.
Israel’s military has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of using ambulances for military ends.
Lebanon’s health ministry also said an Israeli strike on Qana killed five people, including three women, and wounded 25 others.
An Agence France-Presse photographer in the southern town saw significant destruction as an excavator worked to clear debris and first responders carried a body out from under the rubble.

In south Lebanon’s Bazuriyeh, Hassan Berro, a rescuer from the Risala Scout association - which is affiliated with the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement - said: “Our emergency centre was hit and completely destroyed, along with all its contents, including beds and medical equipment”.
The Agence France-Presse photographer saw windows shattered and debris covering several hospital beds in the building, where walls and ceilings were also damaged.
Also Sunday, the Israeli army accused Hezbollah of using a hospital compound in south Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil “for military purposes”.
Hezbollah said it had launched attacks on Israeli targets across the border and inside Lebanon, including against troops in Bint Jbeil, where the NNA reported heavy fighting.
Pope Leo, who visited Lebanon late last year, expressed his closeness to the Lebanese people on Sunday.
He said there was a “moral obligation to protect the civilian population from the atrocious effects of war”.


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Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘war continues’ during visit to southern Lebanon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting troops in southern Lebanon on Sunday. Photo: Zuma Press Wire via dpa

An Israeli military vehicle in Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border. Photo: Reuters

A photograph taken from the southern Lebanese area of Tyre shows traces of rockets fired from Lebanon towards Israel. Photo: AFP

Members of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), in armoured vehicles, patrol the road of the southern Lebanese village of Tair Debba. Photo: AFP

An excavator clears the rubble of destroyed buildings from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Qana. Photo: AFP

Israeli bombardment kills infant in Lebanon during father’s funeral

A Lebanese soldier next to a building destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday. Photo: Xinhua

Tents of internally displaced people line a makeshift camp in the waterfront area of Beirut, Lebanon, amid Israel’s bombardment, on April 4. Photo: EPA

Netanyahu says Israel will widen its invasion of southern Lebanon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Reuters

An Israeli army soldier stands on a self-propelled Howitzer artillery gun positioned in upper Galilee in northern Israel, near the border with southern Lebanon on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Gaza marks 6 months of ceasefire. Does it offer lessons for the Iran war?

A makeshift camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Photo: AP

US President Donald Trump and other leaders at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting on February 19. Photo: Reuters

Smoke and flames rise from an Israeli military strike on a target next to a tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on March 25. Photo: AP

Palestinian militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad greet people for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gaza City. Photo: AP

People mourn over the body of a Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire. Photo: Reuters

No let-up in Israeli attacks on Lebanon as US-Iran ceasefire teeters

A worker tries to salvage boxes from a destroyed building in an area hit by Israeli strikes on Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday. Photo: dpa

An Israeli military mobile artillery unit fires towards southern Lebanon from northern Israel on Thursday. Photo: AP

A woman holds a picture of the late supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a ceremony marking 40 days since he was killed in the US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran, on Thursday. Photo: West Asia News Agency via Reuters

Israel says battle in Lebanon continues despite Iran war truce

An Israeli strike in Tyre, Lebanon on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Israeli air strikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday. Photo: AP

An Israeli F-15D fighter jet over southern Lebanon on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Displaced people shelter on a football pitch in Sidon, Lebanon. Photo: Reuters

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