Israeli Forces Open Fire on Civilians in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa, Killing Two

Israeli forces opened fire on civilians in Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon, killing two young men and wounding a third, according to state media and the National News Agency.

“Israeli strikes kill 14 people and injure 37 in southern Lebanon despite the ceasefire”

Anadolu Ajansı

Naharnet said the victims were standing near an excavator and an Islamic Health Commity team working to clear roads and retrieve bodies in the Deir neighborhood.

Anadolu Ajansı

In a separate account, Anadolu Ajansı reported that Israeli airstrikes and related fire killed 14 people and injured 37 in southern Lebanon on Sunday, with the figures attributed to the Lebanese Health Ministry and the state news agency.

Anadolu Ajansı said the escalation came despite the ceasefire taking effect on April 17, and it cited strikes and fire across areas including Yaroun and Bint Jbeil, as well as Burj Qallawiyeh, Mansouri, Bayt al-Sayyad, Kfar Tebnit, Arnoun, and the Ali al-Taher forest area.

The same Naharnet report said Hezbollah decried in a stament what it called a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire.

Le Parisien described how rescuers, ambulance crews, doctors, and rescue teams became targets under Israeli strikes in Nabatieh, saying the war had claimed the lives of at least 52 members of medical staff.

In that account, two rescuers were killed by an Israeli strike in Nabatieh, and it named Ali Jaber, 22, and Joud Suleiman, 15, as having been alive less than twenty-four hours earlier.

L'Humanité

L'Humanité reported that Lebanese authorities said 91 rescuers have died since the start of the conflict, framing the deaths as a war crime that echoes attacks on health services in Gaza.

L'Humanité said a ceremony in Nabatieh paid final respects to Mahdi Abou Zeid, who was cut down the day before by an Israeli bombardment, and it quoted Abbas Atwiyeh, director of the Nabatieh center of the Islamic committee, describing multiple strikes on the Islamic Health Committee and ambulance association.

The same L'Humanité piece added that the day's tally included "four paramedics killed and about half a dozen others wounded..."

L'Humanité tied the deaths of rescuers in Nabatieh to a sequence of interventions and strikes, saying Abbas Atwiyeh described the first intervention of the Islamic Health Committee in Mayfadoun followed by a second strike that left two dead.

“A Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee ambulance parks in front of the morgue, located outside the al-Najdi al-Shaabieh hospital at the entrance to Nabatieh in southern Lebanon”

L'Orient Today

The report said the Nabatieh Ambulance Association was targeted next, and it described Mahdi as being carried away as he was transferring the wounded from one ambulance to another.

In parallel, Naharnet said drones overflew Beirut’s southern suburbs, Tyre, and multiple areas across southern Lebanon, while Israeli forces fired stun grenades in Kfartebnit, Aita al-Jabal and Barasheet.

Naharnet also said these developments came ahead of a fifth round of Lebanese-Israeli negotiations scheduled to begin today in Washington, despite a truce in effect since Saturday after several previous ceasefires failed to halt fighting in Lebanon.

Anadolu Ajansı reported that since March 2 intensified Israeli attacks against Lebanon have killed more than 2,500 people and displaced more than one million, and it added that a 10-day ceasefire announced for the first time on April 16 had been repeatedly violated by Israel.