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Israel has launched two raids on the towns of Al Shahabiya and Jabal Al Batm in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reports.

First responders and residents stand amid the rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s Corniche al-Mazraa neighbourhood on April 8, 2026. —AFP/File

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