Eight killed in Lebanon day after Trump said Israel and Hezbollah to de-escalate

Hostilities in southern Lebanon, which Israel invaded in March, continued ​on Monday evening

People look at the damages at the site of an Israeli strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon, on May 28. Picture: Kawnat Haju / AFP via Getty Images).

Israeli drone strikes in 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.