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Lebanon’s culture minister told the French news agency AFP Friday that Israeli strikes on the country’s south were putting heritage sites in “serious danger,” adding that a castle had been directly hit.<\/p>\n
A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into effect on April 17, but it never halted fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah, which has long been based in Lebanon. Hezbollah, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel, was not party to the negotiations and quickly rejected the truce. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Both Israel and Hezbollah have accused each other of violating the ceasefire almost daily, and use those accusations to justify their ongoing attacks.<\/p>\n
“Bombings fell very close to the ruins of Tyre,” a UNESCO World Heritage site, Culture Minister Ghassan Salame said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The medieval Beaufort castle overlooking Nabatieh was “directly hit … we know that several bombs fell on this fortress,” he added. “The intensification of the battles means that these sites are in serious danger.”<\/p>\n
In recent days, Israel has issued repeated evacuation warnings, widening what it considers an active combat zone to a vast swath of southern Lebanon and telling tens of thousands of residents to flee for their safety.<\/p>\n
Early Thursday, Israel’s military warned it would target a building in Tyre which it showed on an accompanying map as located very close to the city’s archaeological area. Around two hours after the warning, AFP video showed a fireball followed by smoke as a strike hit the district.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Vance says U.S. and Iran close but “not there yet” on initial deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz
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