Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon kill eight despite calls to reduce tensions

Rescuers work at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Tyre, Lebanon, on Monday. PIC/AP/PTI

Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including a father and his son and daughter, a day after US President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting.

Israel threatened on Monday to strike Beirut's southern suburbs, causing panic in the Lebanese capital as thousands fled to safer areas and Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel.

Israeli forces recently made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years, but Beirut has been mostly spared over the past six weeks, apart from two attacks on the city's suburbs in May.

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