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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. Kfarshuba is among a few southern villages whose residents chose to stay throughout the war despite Israeli expulsion orders. On Tuesday, the association of Christian border villages in southern Lebanon issued a statement urging the Lebanese government to “immediately open safe humanitarian and medical corridors to ensure access for citizens, aid, and medical and relief teams to the affected and isolated villages.”