Israeli Attacks Kill At Least 28 In Southern Lebanon Despite U.S.-Mediated Ceasefire

Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon killed at least 28 people despite a temporary United States-mediated “ceasefire,” Al Jazeera reported, citing the country’s National News Agency (NNA).

“Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have killed at least 28 people, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA), despite a temporary United States-mediated “ceasefire””

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In the municipality of Jebchit, four people were killed and nine others wounded in an attack that destroyed a residential building, while a separate attack killed four members of one family, including a child.

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In the municipality of Toul, four people were killed and six wounded, and later on Thursday another Israeli attack hit a home in Toul, killing one person and injuring two others.

In the municipality of Harouf, two people were killed and the attack also destroyed a house, while in the town of Qana two people were killed in an Israeli air raid.

The Lebanese Army confirmed the deaths of a Lebanese soldier and several members of his family in an Israeli air raid targeting their home in Kfar Rumman, in the Nabatieh district.

Al Jazeera also reported that Israel’s military said one of its soldiers from the Golani Brigade was killed in southern Lebanon, and it added that Israeli forces intensified attacks in southern Lebanon over recent days with artillery shelling reported in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Yohmor al-Shaqif, and Bayt al-Sayyad.

Al Jazeera further said that Israeli air attacks in the past 24 hours killed more than 20 people and that more than 70 others, including children, were injured, while Israel issued forced displacement threats for 15 southern Lebanese towns and villages including Jebchit and Toul.

As the United States-mediated ceasefire continued to be described as temporary, the reported casualty figures in Lebanon varied across outlets and timeframes, with Al Jazeera placing the scale of the conflict since March 2 at “at least 2,586 people in Lebanon, with 8,020 wounded,” according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

Al Jazeera said the ceasefire deal took effect on April 17, while also reporting that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun denounced “continuing Israeli violations” in southern Lebanon on Thursday, saying they were occurring “despite the ceasefire, as do demolitions of homes and places of worship, while the number of killed and wounded rises day after day”.

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Al Jazeera added that Aoun asked the US for a date for negotiations to restart, and it quoted Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb saying “Lebanon’s President Aoun has asked the US for a date for negotiations to restart but has also said that Israel must fully implement the ceasefire.”

In parallel, annahar reported that Israel strikes southern Lebanon as the death toll nears 2,000 ahead of talks mediated by the United States, and it gave a specific figure of “1,953 dead and 6,303 wounded.”

annahar said Israeli aircraft carried out an airstrike Saturday morning on the town of Nabatieh and another strike targeting the Zefta highway in southern Lebanon, and it also said Israel targeted the area around Zawtar and the vicinity of Tebnine Government Hospital.

annahar reported that Israel had previously announced it would not discuss a ceasefire with Hezbollah during direct talks planned with the Lebanese government next week in Washington, and it said the Israeli ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter, and his Lebanese counterpart, Nada Hamadeh Moawad, spoke by phone and agreed to meet on Tuesday at the U.S. State Department headquarters.

In the background of these negotiations, Al Jazeera also reported that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called for “the swift formation of an international fact-finding committee on the crimes of the Israeli occupation.”

Beyond the headline casualty counts, the sources describe a continuing pattern of claimed strikes and ceasefire-related accusations, with Ici Beyrouth reporting that an Israeli air strike targeted a car on Ali al-Taher Road near the town of Kfarman in the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon.

Ici Beyrouth said the Israeli army announced it had targeted two Hezbollah members and claimed to have struck them in the Nabatieh region, explicitly framing the action as a response to “Hezbollah's repeated violations of the ceasefire agreements.”

The same report said that shortly after, the Emergency Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health announced that the Israeli raid that hit the neighboring town of Kfar Remman had killed two people.

Ici Beyrouth also described an earlier Israeli attack in the Tyre region, claiming to have eliminated Ali Nour Eddine, described as responsible for Hezbollah's artillery on the Hoch-Tyr axis, and it added that local information identified the person killed as Sheikh Ali Nourreddine, a Hezbollah member and host of religious programs on the Al-Manar channel.

In addition to strike narratives, Ici Beyrouth reported on UNIFIL’s role, saying UNIFIL announced on Monday that it had helped the Lebanese army deploy to about 130 permanent positions in southern Lebanon since November 2024, and that “more than 400 weapons caches and infrastructures have been reported to the Lebanese army.”

The report also quoted UNIFIL concluding that “Our joint efforts support Resolution 1701 and contribute to long-term stability.”

Diplomatic and monitoring language also appeared in Ici Beyrouth through Simon Karam, head of the Lebanese delegation to the ceasefire monitoring mechanism, who reaffirmed that “the Lebanese army is the only body authorized to dismantle Hezbollah's military structure,” and it said he stressed Lebanon's commitment to the existing mechanism while calling for a meeting soon and making the return of southern residents a pillar of the negotiations.

Several reports focused on the impact of strikes on rescue and medical personnel, portraying a pattern in which ambulance workers, doctors, and rescue teams were killed or described as targets.

Le Parisien reported that in Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon, “two rescuers were killed by an Israeli strike,” and it said that “Ambulance workers, doctors and rescue teams have become targets since the war began.”

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The same Le Parisien account said the war had claimed the lives of “at least 52 members of medical staff,” and it named two teenagers who had been alive less than 24 hours earlier: Ali Jaber, 22, and Joud Suleiman, 15.

It described a scene where “more than fifty people are now standing in a tight circle around their bodies wrapped in white shrouds,” and it said the crowd included many rescuers in uniforms who had “just stepped down from their ambulances.”

TRT Français reported that Israeli air strikes in recent days in Lebanon have killed at least 394 people, including “83 children and 42 women,” according to the latest toll released on Sunday by the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

TRT Français added that in Nabatieh, at least 19 people were killed in Israeli strikes that on Sunday targeted a three-story building, and it said rescue teams were continuing operations amid rubble while raising fears of a higher death toll.

Al-Manar TV Lebanon said “Three civilians were martyred” in an Israeli attack early this morning when a house in Louaizeh was targeted, and it said the spokesperson for the Israeli enemy army threatened residents of towns and villages in the Nabatieh district with evacuation orders, listing Qaqaiyat al-Jisr, Adshit al-Shaqif, Jebshit, Abba, Kfarjouz, Harouf, Al-Duwayr, Deir al-Zahrani, and Haboush.

While much of the reporting centered on southern Lebanon, other sources described Israeli strikes reaching Beirut and framed them as targeting Iranian-linked leadership, while Hezbollah’s actions were described in parallel.

Al-Manصة reported that at least 23 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes that targeted the Lebanese capital Beirut and areas in the south of the country in the early hours of this Sunday, including at least four dead and about ten injured in an Israeli strike on the Ramada hotel in the Raouché area of Beirut.

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It said the Lebanese National News Agency said the death toll could rise, noting that civil defense and ambulance teams continue to lift rubble and retrieve bodies, and it pointed to the killing of 19 people in a three-story building in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, targeted by the occupation army in the late hours of yesterday.

Al-Manصة quoted an Israeli army justification that “its strikes are precise and targeted,” and it said the Israeli army claimed the attack targeted leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps active in Lebanon, specifically the Lebanon-based unit of the Quds Force.

The report said the statement described the room targeted in the hotel as where senior Iranian officials were staying, including intelligence personnel and financial officials linked to the Quds Force, without naming them.

Al-Manصة also said this was the second Israeli strike of this kind on a hotel this week, after a similar raid targeted a hotel in Hazmieh, a predominantly Christian area near Beirut, adjacent to Baabda where the presidential palace and ministries, diplomatic missions and ambassadors are located.

In the same report, Hezbollah targeted settlements and Israeli sites with “20 rocket and drone attacks,” including the city of Nahariya, the Tel HaShomer military bases, the Haifa Naval base, Stella Maris for radar and maritime surveillance, and it also said Hezbollah struck the Alta defense industries company and the Northern Command headquarters at the Dado base.