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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIsrael launched strikes across southern Lebanon on Saturday after ordering evacuations from more than a dozen locations, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israeli forces had crossed the Litani River in an expanded ground offensive.\n\nLebanon's army said an Israeli drone wounded two soldiers near Nabatieh, just hours after military delegations from both countries held landmark security talks in Washington.\n\n### What strikes did Israel carry out in southern Lebanon on Saturday?\n\nLebanon's state-run National News Agency reported several Israeli strikes in the south, including artillery fire near the medieval-era Beaufort castle.\n\nAn Israeli drone wounded two Lebanese army soldiers \"seriously\" inside a vehicle near the southern city of Nabatieh, the Lebanese military said.\n\nThe Israeli military's evacuation warnings covered villages near Nabatieh and some in the east of the country. Culture Minister Ghassan Salame had warned on Friday that Israeli attacks were putting Lebanese heritage sites in \"serious danger.\"\n\n### How deep has Israel pushed into Lebanese territory?\n\nNetanyahu announced Friday that Israeli forces had advanced beyond the Litani River, which runs around 30 kilometers north of the Lebanon-Israel frontier and had been designated as the boundary of the area to be cleared of Hezbollah fighters.\n\n\"Our forces have crossed the Litani, they have moved up to the commanding terrain,\" Netanyahu said, adding Israel was \"hitting Hezbollah head on.\"\n\nIsraeli strikes on the south killed 11 people on Friday, according to Beirut's health ministry. Since the conflict erupted on March 2, Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,300 people, according to the ministry.\n\n### How has Hezbollah responded to Israel's escalation?\n\nHezbollah said Saturday it fired rockets at the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona and ambushed Israeli soldiers near Ghandouriyeh in southern Lebanon, claiming it forced them to withdraw. The group also said it fired rockets at a military base in northern Israel.\n\nBoth Israel and Hezbollah accuse each other of violating the ceasefire that officially took effect on April 17 and justify their own attacks by citing the other's alleged breaches.\n\nHezbollah said it had originally attacked Israel in retaliation for the death of Iran's supreme leader in U.S.-Israeli strikes when the wider Middle East war erupted on Feb. 28.\n\n### What is the diplomatic situation between Lebanon and Israel?\n\nMilitary delegations from Lebanon and Israel held landmark security talks in Washington on Friday, the first such discussions under U.S. mediation. Pentagon deputy chief Elbridge Colby called the discussions \"productive\" but made no mention of a ceasefire, a key Lebanese demand.\n\nA fourth round of U.S.-brokered negotiations is scheduled for June 2 and 3. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam agreed Saturday to \"intensify contacts to put an end to these condemned Israeli practices\" ahead of the talks, discussing Israeli attacks on southern cities including Tyre and Nabatieh, as well as the destruction of historical landmarks and the bulldozing of homes.\n\n### What is Iran's position on the Lebanon front?\n\nIran insists that Lebanon be included in any agreement with the United States to end the wider Middle East war. The Lebanon conflict erupted on March 2, when Hezbollah drew the country into the war in support of Iran.\n\nSince then, Israeli strikes have pummeled Lebanon's south, east, and its capital, Beirut.\n\nIsrael has struck Beirut for the first time in almost a month, widening its offensive as U.S.-Iran peace talks continue without a breakthrough.",
  "title": "Israel launches more south Lebanon strikes after warnings"
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