Al-Manar TV correspondent reported that 12 people were killed or wounded, including children and women, as a result of an Israeli air raid on the town of Arab Salim town in southern Lebanon. The reporter added that Israeli warplanes attacked the town of Yohmor al-Shaqif in southern Lebanon. Three Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon’s Beirut-Sidon highway had killed eight Lebanese nationals, among them two children, just one day before what is called direct negotiations between Lebanon and ‘Israel’ are set to begin in Washington.