Israeli Attacks Kill 4,322 in Lebanon, Injure 12,210 Since March 2

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health Emergency Operations Center said the cumulative toll from Israeli aggression against Lebanon since March 2 has reached 4,322 killed and 12,210 injured, as the Israeli attacks continue on Lebanese territory.

The QNA report tied the figures to documented data that are “continuously collected and updated,” and said efforts are underway with relevant authorities to monitor the health and humanitarian situation.

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In parallel, Al Jazeera reported that the Lebanese Army leadership met with a visiting American military delegation to establish a mechanism for implementing the first experimental area in the south as part of the Framework Agreement signed between Lebanon and Israel in Washington.

Al Jazeera also said an official Lebanese source told the delegation the army is ready to deploy in any area from which Israel withdraws, while U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa announced the delegation would arrive in Beirut within a few days.

The same Al Jazeera report described Israeli airstrikes injuring seven people when strikes hit the town of Al-Mansouri in the Tyre District of southern Lebanon.

Al Jazeera said the meeting’s timing matters because it directly precedes the Rome meeting, after a Lebanese objection to participating that Beirut tied to tangible steps on the ground confirming the seriousness of the American track.

The report also quoted Yediot Ahronot as saying that no orders have yet been issued for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from areas where they are present in Lebanon, adding that “The army continues in the Blue Line area to sweep Hezbollah's infrastructure.”

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In a separate AFP account carried by التلفزيون العربي | West Asian, a Lebanese official said Beirut would participate in talks scheduled for next week in Rome with Israel, after diplomatic sources indicated Beirut conditioned Israel’s withdrawal from two southern areas before resuming negotiations.

The AFP-linked report also said that on June 26 Lebanon and Israel signed in Washington a framework agreement calling for Hezbollah’s disarming and a gradual Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, with the Lebanese army to be deployed starting in two experimental areas.

Al-Manar TV Lebanon likewise framed the situation around the same Lebanese Health Ministry update, stating “4,322 martyrs and 12,210 injuries” since March 2.

The Lebanese Health Ministry toll update in QNA and the figure repeated by صحیفة سبق الإلكترونية both placed the cumulative death toll since March 2 at 4,322 killed, while صحیفة سبق الإلكترونية put injuries at 12,202 and QNA put injuries at 12,210.

Al Jazeera reported that internal political and security challenges relate to the nature of the Lebanese army’s deployment in towns not considered occupied such as Afron and al-Ghanduriya, and said debate inside Lebanon followed after the official demand had focused on withdrawal from the occupied towns.

The same Al Jazeera report said the Israeli side, according to the data, insisted on including other towns in redeployment arrangements, and quoted a senior Israeli official saying handing over the two experimental areas would take at least a few weeks “until the Lebanese army is ready to assume responsibility.”

Al Jazeera also described ongoing Israeli operations in south Lebanon, including an Israeli force penetration into the eastern outskirts of Beit Yahoun with three Merkava tanks and two D9 bulldozers, alongside artillery shells and machine-gun sweeps.

In the AFP-linked account carried by التلفزيون العربي | West Asian, Lebanon’s participation in Rome talks was framed as tied to American efforts to solidify understandings related to security on the Lebanon-Israel border and to discuss arrangements for Israeli withdrawal from areas described by the Lebanese side as experimental.