Two killed in Israeli raid in southern Lebanon town of Mefdoun

Two people were killed and another person was wounded in an Israeli raid on the town of Mefdoun, in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh district, the National News Agency reports, citing the country’s health ministry.

The ministry said it was a revised toll from earlier.

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