Israel targets farmers with phosphorus shells in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army targeted farmers in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district with phosphorus shells on Tuesday, while detaining three civilians and wounding another person, according to Lebanese media reports. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli forces fired three phosphorus shells near farmers harvesting watermelons in fields near the Mansouri junction in Tyre district. The farmers fled the area immediately after the shelling and no injuries were reported, the agency said. Israeli aircraft also struck the towns of Hanawieh and Maarka in Tyre district, according to NNA. In the same district, the Islamic Health Committee said it recovered the body of a civilian from beneath the rubble of a house in the town of Qana that was hit by Israeli […]