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An apparent Israeli drone strike in Lebanon kills 2 in one of the deepest hits in weeks
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Lebanese army soldiers gather around a damaged car near the coastal town of Jadra, south Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. An apparent Israeli drone strike hit a car near Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon Saturday killing at least two people and wounded others, security officials said. - photo by AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari
BEIRUT (AP) — An apparent Israeli drone strike hit a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said. The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a drone attack last month that killed three U.S. troops in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border and attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels on vessels passing through the Red Sea. The drone strike near the coastal town of Jadra took place about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Israeli border, making it one of the farthest inside Lebanon since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas' attack in southern Israel.