Fighting Intensifies With Strikes on Critical Infrastructure

As the fighting between Iran and the United States escalated on Saturday, tensions also appeared to be rising along the Israel-Lebanon border. An Israeli drone carried out an airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported. Israeli warplanes struck a neighborhood in the town of Mansouri, in the coastal Tyre district, after war planes carried out two waves of airstrikes at dawn targeting another area of Mansouri, according to the news agency.

In response to questions, an Israeli military spokeswoman said that the military had attacked militants “who posed a threat” in Nabatieh but that the military was “not aware” of any Israeli bombing in Mansouri on Saturday.

President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon departed on Saturday for Washington at the invitation of President Trump, the Lebanese presidency said in a statement. Aoun is expected to take part in a Lebanese-U.S. summit at the White House and meet with U.S. officials to discuss the tenuous cease-fire with Israel, as well as efforts to restore security and stability and to secure Israel’s withdrawal from the territory it is occupying in southern Lebanon.