Lebanon urges US ambassador to push Israel

Lebanese leaders urged the US ambassador to Beirut to pressure Israel to halt its attacks as it pounded the country with airstrikes on Monday despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war. Lebanese authorities raised the overall death toll from Israeli strikes since March 2 to 2,869 people. That figure includes dozens killed since the truce went into force on April 17. Israel's military said one of its soldiers had been killed a day earlier in fighting near the border with Lebanon, bringing it

By The Korea Herald