Israel pounds eastern and southern Lebanon as truce talks continue | Israel attacks Lebanon News [Video]

Israeli air raids have killed dozens of people in the Baalbek region in eastern Lebanon, a local official said, as a United States mediator sought to advance ceasefire talks in Israel.

At least 47 people were killed and 22 others wounded in the attacks, Bachir Khodr, governor of Lebanon’s Baalbek-Hermel province, said in a post on X on Thursday. Rescue operations were under way, he added.

Elsewhere in Lebanon, Beirut shook as Israeli air strikes hit the southern suburbs about a dozen times, sending up clouds of debris in some of the most intense air strikes yet.

The Israeli army said it carried out strikes against Hezbollah infrastructure and that it had mitigated civilian harm through advance warnings and other steps.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry also said that the three people were killed in an Israeli bombing of the town of al-Shaitiyah, near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s …