Tragedy Strikes: Mayor Killed in Devastating Airstrike! 

United States: The mayor of a large city in southern Lebanon was killed, along with at least five others, in an Israeli airstrike on their municipal building. They were meeting to discuss how to help people affected by the war when the attack happened. 

This airstrike took place in Nabatieh on Wednesday morning, and it hit the building while members of the local crisis committee were inside, according to Howaida Turk, the governor of Nabatieh province. 

As reported by The Guardian, It was the deepest Israeli blow on a Lebanese state structure since a war with Hezbollah that began a year ago and escalated after a week of airstrikes across Lebanon. 

People trapped under the debris were rushed to secondary centres until early afternoon and a source who is a member of a paramedic association in Nabatieh said that more people were expected to die. 

An Israeli strike also targeted a government civil defence centre in Nabatieh which left 50 year old Naji Fahs dead, he has been a member of the emergency response force since 2002. In the early afternoon, the Lebanese Red Cross said that two of its paramedics were lightly hurt when Israel targeted a site in Joya, south Lebanon where emergency workers were helping to evacuate people injured in the first attack. 

Lebanons caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati described the attack as deplorable, and accused Israel of deliberately attacking municipal workers who were in a meeting to co-ordinate the delivery of humanitarian aid. 

The UN special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said that suffering in Lebanon has become unbearable and stressed that civilians should always be protected. 

The Israeli state stated on Wednesday that it had targeted and destroyed forties of Hezbollah structures in the Nabatieh region while its navy also reported converting dozens of Hezbollah ‘launchers, military positions and weapons depots’ in south-west Lebanon. 

We earlier gave the people of the city until 3 October to flee because we were going to strike Hezbollah targets in Nabatieh. Some people and evacuees stayed in the city. 

Israel has heightened attacks on Nabatieh over the past week and large parts of the city are now destroyed. Besides, an old historical market which was constructed in 1910 under the Ottomans was also reduced to rubble on Sunday.