The mayor of Nabatiyeh Ahmad Kahil was among sixteen people killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes on the municipality of the southern Lebanese city.
"The mayor of Nabatiyeh, among others... was martyred. It's a massacre," Nabatiyeh governor Howaida Turk told AFP, adding he had been in the municipality building.
Four members of a relief team were killed in the strike on the municipality building.
U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon Imran Riza on Wednesday said the strikes were "devastating".
"This morning a devastating attack claimed the lives of yet more civilians and local authorities working to provide relief," Riza said, adding that he mourns four "members of a relief team with whom the U.N. and humanitarian partners have been working for more than a year".
Israel carried out Wednesday 11 air strikes on Nabatiyeh and surrounding areas in south Lebanon, days after strikes destroyed the southern city's marketplace.
"For now, 11 strikes have mainly hit Nabatiyeh but also its surroundings," Nabatiyeh governor Howaida Turk told AFP, adding that the intense raids "formed a kind of belt of fire" in the area.
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