Israel continued its airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing 12 people, including a child, despite an ongoing ceasefire. Israeli forces reportedly killed at least eight people in Habboush in the Nabatieh district on Friday. The attacks also injured eight others, including a woman and another child.
According to Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto, the Lebanese Civilian Defence had to search through the rubble of the destroyed residential neighbourhood.
“The footage coming out of there is really dramatic, with buildings completely flattened,” Hitto reported from Tyre, a city in southern Lebanon.
“We keep seeing this same kind of strategy throughout the country,” he added “There were strikes that killed and injured many other people in at least six other locations in southern Lebanon today, including women and children.”
Israeli attacks near Tyre and Nabatieh killed an additional four people, according to the country’s National News Agency. Infrastructural damages on Friday include houses, a convent, and a school.
Thursday had also seen a round of Israeli strikes, killing 28 people.
Israel maintains its claim that the attacks target the Lebanese group Hezbollah but many of its victims have been civilians.
Hezbollah has continued to attack Israeli forces and vehicles inside Lebanon, including targeting a Merkava tank and soldiers in Sour. Israel has occupied parts of southern Lebanon, which it deems to be a buffer zone.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center have currently reported a total of 2,618 deaths and 8,094 injuries since the conflict escalated on March 2. The numbers are in spite of a US-brokered ceasefire announced on April 17.
Israel and Hezbollah have been at war since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza from October 2023. Israel amplified the attacks in September 2024, killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel was reported to have violated a subsequent ceasefire in November 2024 more than 10,000 times.
Hezbollah targeted Israel again on March 2, after the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
