BEIRUT, (PIC)
At least 23 people were killed and several others injured in renewed Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Friday, according to the National News Agency.
Lebanon’s health ministry reported that an Israeli strike on Nabatieh al‑Fawqa killed two people and wounded 10 others.
Rescue teams later recovered five bodies from the rubble of a building in Kfar Reman, which had been hit overnight. Civil defense crews and ambulance teams worked to clear debris in Nabatieh after the strike.
In Deir Qanoun Ras al‑Ain, two people were killed and two others were injured in an airstrike, while a woman was killed and four others were wounded when a house was shelled in Ain Baal, east of Tyre.
Eight people, including a child and two women, were killed and 28 others were injured in the town of Habbouch, Nabatieh district.
Israeli strikes on az-Zrariyeh town in Sidon district killed four people, including two women, and injured four others. Another civilian was killed in the town of Burj Qalaouiyah, Bint Jbeil district.
The Israeli occupation army carried out near‑daily strikes in southern Lebanon following the November 2024 ceasefire, destroying homes and infrastructure to create a so-called buffer zone. These actions continued for more than a year, causing widespread destruction and displacement and escalating into a broader conflict by March 2026.
Israel has not stopped attacking Lebanon since October 2023 and has violated the November 2024 ceasefire more than 10,000 times, according to the UN. Most of these attacks have been concentrated in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley in the east.
