Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon have killed at least five people. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that the strikes Friday targeted the village of Toura near Tyre, wounding eight others.

The IDF says it struck over 85 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in the past day, along with an underground weapons site in the Beqaa Valley. According to the military, the targets in southern Lebanon included weapon depots, rocket launchers, and buildings used by Hezbollah to advance attacks.

The United States will host two days of intensive talks between Israel and Lebanon next week in a renewed push for a broader peace and security arrangement, according to a State Department statement released on Friday.

By Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily and Tom Perry BEIRUT, May 3 (Reuters) - Hezbollah has paid a heavy price for going to war with Israel on March 2: Israel has occupied a chunk of southern Lebanon, displaced hundreds of thousands of its Shi'ite Muslim constituents and killed as many as several thousand of its fighters,

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said strengthening the Lebanese government will be key to confronting the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and confirmed the U.S. would be hosting another round of talks between the Israeli and Lebanese governments next week.