Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed at least 13 people on Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Lebanese people to join Israel's fight against Hezbollah. Israeli forces seized a local councillor and a municipal worker from the border town of Kfarshuba, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said, while Israel said it "apprehended" two people who approached its soldiers. FRANCE 24's Antonia Kerrigan reports from Beirut.

Israeli military abducts municipal councillor, worker in southern Lebanon Israeli forces abducted a municipal councillor and a worker on Wednesday in the southern Lebanese town of Kfarshuba, amid continuous Israeli strikes in the area. “An Israeli patrol took away Kfarshuba municipal council member Mohammad Hassan al-Hajj and worker Ahmad Salah Diab, taking them to an unknown location,” Lebanon’s National News Agency said. A local Lebanese outlet confirmed that the two individuals were taken by the Israeli patrol in the morning, around 10am, while operating a water pump outside the village.