Israeli air strikes kill 14 in Lebanon village

GHAZIYEH: Israeli air strikes killed 14 people and wounded 23 in the southern Lebanese village of Ghaziyeh on Tuesday, rescue workers said.   

The air strikes hit the village as mourners were burying 15 relatives killed in a bombing the previous day, but were not in the immediate vicinity of the funeral, a witness said.   

The mourners chanted anti-American slogans after the air strike on the Shi'ite Muslim village, he said.   

Ghaziyeh, just south of Sidon, the largest city in south Lebanon 40 km (25 miles) from Beirut, has been housing many people displaced from their villages near the border with Israel. Israeli leaflets in Sidon and surrounding villages last week urged resident to leave the area.