Suzanne Karkaba and her father Ali were both civil defence rescuers whose job was to save the injured and recover the dead in Lebanon's war. Wearing her civil defence uniform at the scene, Karkaba said she had been working around-the-clock since Israel ramped up its air raids on Lebanon's east in late September.

Israeli officials are insisting on maintaining a capacity to strike Lebanon at any moment as part of conditions to secure a ceasefire with Iran-backed Hezbollah, France's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

According to reports from "The Washington Post," the Israeli government is preparing a ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, intended as a "gift" for President-elect Donald Trump. An anonymous Israeli official revealed to the newspaper: "There is an understanding that Israel would gift something to Trump