Israeli Drone Strikes Kill Four in Yuhmor Al-Shaqeef as Ceasefire Extension Continues

Fighting and air attacks continued in southern Lebanon even after Israel and Lebanon extended a ceasefire for three weeks, according to multiple reports.

“Israel has continued its attacks on southern Lebanon, hours after ceasefire between the two countries was extended for a further three weeks”

Al Jazeera

The Washington Post described President Donald Trump announcing a three-week extension while “Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued Friday even as President Donald Trump announced a three-week extension of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.”

Al Jazeera

In Beirut, CBC reported that “An Israeli airstrike killed two people in the southern village of Touline on Friday,” while Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the strike occurred “as Israel's army ordered residents to evacuate another southern Lebanese town.”

CBC also said an Israeli drone was heard “circling above Beirut throughout the day on Friday,” and that the Israeli military warned residents of Deir Aames to leave their homes immediately on Friday.

The same ceasefire extension was also framed as “meaningless” by Hezbollah, with CBC quoting Hezbollah’s position that the U.S.-mediated truce was meaningless after it “shot down an Israeli drone, which it identified as a Hermes 450.”

Al Jazeera similarly reported that “Israel continues its attacks on southern Lebanon, hours after ceasefire between the two countries was extended for a further three weeks,” and said the attacks included an exchange of fire in the area of Bint Jbeil in which Israel said it “eliminated” six Hezbollah fighters.

In parallel, Al-Manar TV Lebanon reported “Lebanese Health Ministry: 4 people martyred in two Israeli drone strike on Yuhmor Al-Shaqeef,” tying the casualties to Israeli drone strikes near Nabatieh.

Alongside reported casualties, the ceasefire extension was accompanied by Israeli warnings and forced evacuation orders in specific towns in southern Lebanon.

CBC said Israel’s army ordered residents to evacuate “another southern Lebanese town,” and it specified that “the Israeli military warned residents of Deir Aames to leave their homes immediately on Friday.”

Al-Manar TV Lebanon

CBC added that Deir Aames is “located north of the area occupied by Israeli forces,” and that it was “the first time Israel had issued such a warning since a ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon came into force on April 16.”

The report also said the Israeli warning “gave no details of the activities it said Hezbollah was conducting in the town,” while the Israeli military said it had “intercepted a drone prior to its crossing into Israeli territory and that sirens were sounded in line with protocol.”

Al Jazeera described continued military activity despite the truce, saying “There have been air strikes, drone strikes, home demolitions and continued occupation of territory here in southern Lebanon,” and it quoted Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett that Hezbollah also fired “rockets and drones at Israeli troops inside southern Lebanon, but also across the border inside Israel.”

Anadolu Ajansı reported that the Lebanese Army “continued on Thursday to reinforce its positions in southern Lebanon after taking Israeli fire earlier this week,” and it tied the reinforcement to a drone strike near Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

Anadolu Ajansı said an Israeli drone carried out “a guided-missile strike against the outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon,” and that the projectile hit “a wooded area known as Ali al-Taher, located northeast of the locality in Nabatieh Governorate,” with “Ambulances were dispatched to the scene.”

In a separate thread, the same Anadolu Ajansı report said Israel continues to occupy “five Lebanese hills seized during the last conflict,” and that it also controls “other territories it has controlled for decades,” placing the drone and reinforcement episodes within a longer occupation framework.

Hezbollah and Israeli officials both treated the ceasefire extension as conditional on continued hostile actions, and each side accused the other of sabotaging the truce.

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Al-Manar TV Lebanon

CBC reported that Hezbollah dismissed the U.S.-mediated ceasefire as meaningless after it “shot down an Israeli drone, which it identified as a Hermes 450,” and it also quoted Hezbollah’s member of parliament Ali Fayyad saying the ceasefire was “meaningless in light of Israel's insistence on hostile acts, including assassinations, shelling and gunfire” and its demolition of villages and towns in the south.

CBC added that “Every Israeli attack ... gives the resistance the right to a proportionate response,” quoting Ali Fayyad directly.

Al Jazeera likewise quoted Ali Fayyad saying, “It is essential to point out that the ceasefire is meaningless in light of Israel’s insistence on hostile acts, including assassinations, shelling, and gunfire,” and it said he added that “every Israeli attack gave Hezbollah the “right to retaliate.””

On the Israeli side, Al Jazeera reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was “maintaining full freedom of action against any threat” and accused Hezbollah of “trying to sabotage” the ceasefire deal.

The Washington Post described Hezbollah’s reaction to the extension as contempt, saying Hezbollah called the truce “meaningless.”

It also said the Iran-backed militant group is “still a powerful force in Lebanon,” and it raised “concerns over the government’s ability to bring it under control” as questions about the ceasefire’s “long-term prospects.”

In the same reporting stream, CBC quoted UN Secretary General António Guterres welcoming the extension and calling on all parties to “fully respect the cessation of hostilities, cease any further attacks & comply with their obligations under international law.”

Beyond strikes in villages, Lebanon’s political leadership and journalists’ organizations accused Israel of war crimes after a drone strike killed a journalist in southern Lebanon.

CBS News reported that “Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon that killed a journalist on Wednesday were a war crime, Lebanon's prime minister said,” and it said Amal Khalil, “43, a journalist with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar,” “bled to death in the ruins of a building” hit by an Israeli drone.

Anadolu Ajansı

CBS quoted Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accusing Israel in a social media post, saying Israel’s “targeting of media workers in the south while they carry out their professional duties is no longer isolated incidents, but … an established approach that we condemn and reject.”

The Lebanese Union of Journalists said rescuers were prevented from accessing the destroyed building where Khalil was trapped beneath rubble, and CBS reported that Khalil “bled to death in the ruins of a building” after Israeli gunfire prevented ambulance crews from reaching her “for nearly four hours,” according to the union.

CBS also reported that photojournalist Zeinab Faraj was wounded in the attack, and that the Lebanese Health Ministry said the IDF pursued Khalil and Faraj “targeting the house to which they had fled.”

The ministry further said that when the Lebanese Red Cross arrived, “the enemy prevented the completion of the humanitarian mission, firing a stun grenade at the ambulance and targeting it with gunfire, so it was not possible to extract Khalil.”

CBS added that the IDF denied troops prevented rescue teams and said it “does not target journalists and acts to mitigate harm to them while maintaining the safety and security of its troops.”

It also said the IDF has not acknowledged Khalil’s death, and it described how mourners carried Khalil’s coffin through the streets of Baysariyah, her hometown in southern Lebanon, with “a blue flak jacket and helmet” perched atop the casket.

As the ceasefire extension played out, reporting also described military reinforcement activity and, separately, scrutiny of how external actors assess risk in Lebanon-related operations.

“The Lebanese Army continued on Thursday to reinforce its positions in southern Lebanon after taking Israeli fire earlier this week”

Anadolu Ajansı

Anadolu Ajansı reported that “The Lebanese Army continued on Thursday to reinforce its positions in southern Lebanon after taking Israeli fire earlier this week,” and it said the army was “finalizing defensive measures in the Sarda area in the Marjayoun District” by “installing metal fences along an earthen embankment erected on a route regularly used during Israeli incursions from the Al-Hamamis hill.”

CBC

It added that on Wednesday the army “had already fortified two positions at Sarda by erecting additional earth mounds,” and it described Israeli statements that soldiers were fired on in “warning shots” to prevent a new military post near the border.

The report also said that in the same period, “an Israeli drone overflew the area at low altitude, issuing threats against the soldiers,” and that a drone strike hit “Ali al-Taher” near Nabatieh al-Fawqa, with “Ambulances were dispatched to the scene.”

In a different angle on the broader conflict environment, The Washington Post framed Hezbollah’s stance toward the ceasefire extension as contemptuous, quoting that Hezbollah called the truce “meaningless,” and it tied that to “concerns over the government’s ability to bring it under control.”

The Washington Post also said the Iran-backed militant group remains “still a powerful force in Lebanon,” while CBC emphasized the ceasefire’s fragility by quoting UN Secretary General António Guterres’s call to “fully respect the cessation of hostilities, cease any further attacks & comply with their obligations under international law.”

Finally, Haaretz focused on military technology, arguing that Israel’s buffer zone “Won't Stop Hezbollah's Fiber Optic Drones,” and it described “Fiber-optic drones developed in Ukraine” as reaching the region and offering Hezbollah a “cheap, precise weapon that can bypass Israel's electronic defenses.”

Taken together, the reinforcement reporting and the technology-focused analysis show how the ceasefire extension coexisted with both ground-level preparations and continued tactical adaptation.