At least 16 people, including a mayor of Nabatiyeh, Ahmad Kahil, have been killed and 52 were wounded in an Israeli air strike on the municipal headquarters in a city in southern Lebanon.
According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, at the time of the strike on Wednesday morning, October 16, Kahil was conducting a meeting to coordinate aid deliveries to residents and those displaced by war.
“The mayor of Nabatiyeh, among others was martyred. It’s a massacre,” AFP quoted Nabatiyeh governor Howaida Turk as saying.