Israeli soldiers killed 15 people in south Lebanon as a deadline for their withdrawal passed and thousands of people tried to return to their homes in defiance of Israeli military orders, Al Jazeera reports.
Lebanon’s health ministry said 15 people were killed and another 83 wounded in numerous locations in the south, as a result of what it described as Israeli attacks on citizens while they were trying to enter their still-occupied towns.
The top UN official in Lebanon and the head of the UN peacekeepers in the south said conditions are “not yet in place” for the safe return of Lebanese citizens to villages near the border.
