It was not how the Rev. Maroun Ghafari had envisioned this Holy Week — for years, he had held Easter sermons in his predominantly Christian village of Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel.

Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Sunday killed at least 15 people, a day after Israel threatened to hit Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria, forcing it to close.

With Israel thrusting deeper into Lebanon and threatening to seize Lebanese territory as far as the Litani, a river 20 miles north of the Israeli border, the situation of displaced people in Beirut “will be even worse than what we’re seeing now,” warned Harb, from the U.N. refugee agency.

On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people in Lebanon, including a 4-year-old girl in the southern town of Kfar Hatta, far from the border with Israel.

A growing number of Shiite families displaced by the war in Lebanon say they’re being pushed out of towns where they feel unwelcome.

Iran and its proxy militias have threatened universities in Lebanon, U.S. officials say, and the State Department warned Americans to depart immediately.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says a 4-year-old girl and a soldier are among seven people killed in an Israeli attack on the town of Kfar Hatta near the coastal city of Sidon. The Israeli military had called on the entire town late Saturday to evacuate. There is no immediate comment on the deaths from the IDF.

PARIS (AP) — A complaint filed Thursday in France seeks a war crimes investigation into an Israeli strike on a Beirut apartment building in November 2024 said to have killed seven civilians including the parents of a French-Lebanese artist, a human rights group said.