Israel has killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens across southern Lebanon, with attacks also targeting civil defence teams and causing widespread destruction in residential neighbourhoods despite a ceasefire it keeps breaching, Lebanese media reported.
Two people were killed in an Israeli attack targeting a car in the town of Ain Baal in Tyre district, said Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) on Thursday.
Two others were killed in a separate Israeli attack on a pickup truck along Habboush Road in Nabatieh district.
In Harouf, one person was killed and three wounded after an Israeli attack on a house.
Another Israeli attack on the city of Nabatieh killed one person and wounded an unspecified number of others while causing extensive destruction to homes and commercial shops.
One person was also killed in an attack on Deir al-Zahrani that destroyed a building, while another person was killed and several wounded in a raid on the town of Doueir.
Additional Israeli attacks killed one person in Ain Baal and another in an attack targeting a motorcycle near the Breqaa junction in Nabatieh district.
A separate Israeli attack on a truck near Safa station on the Meifadoun road also killed one person.
Two people were wounded in an attack on the Toul area in Nabatieh district that targeted a civil defence team and damaged an ambulance.
Another Israeli strike targeted a civil defence crew in Majdal Selm in Marjayoun district, causing an unspecified number of wounded.
Israel killed at least 2,727 since truce
Civil defence workers in Aadshit were also targeted by Israel while evacuating a wounded person, according to local reports.
Other Israeli attacks wounded at least one person in Doueir and another in Jouaiya in Tyre district.
Several people were also reported wounded in an Israeli strike on the central square of Doueir, which destroyed homes and damaged a mosque and commercial shops.
Lebanese media reported Israeli artillery shelling and drone strikes on several areas in southern Lebanon, including the towns of Habboush, Deir al-Zahrani, Kfour, Deir Kifa, and Hannawiyah, as well as the main road between Khirbet Selm and Qalawiya.
NNA also said that Israeli drones flew at low altitude above Beirut and its suburbs.
In response, Hezbollah launched eight strikes on Israeli targets in southern Lebanon, which it said targeted two tanks, a military bulldozer and a command centre, as well as three gatherings of occupation soldiers and military vehicles.
Despite a ceasefire announced on April 17 and extended until May 17, the Israeli army continues daily attacks in Lebanon and widespread demolition of homes in dozens of villages, echoing its years-long devastation of Gaza.
Since March 2, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 2,727 people, wounded 8,438 and displaced more than 1.6 million, about one-fifth of the population, according to the latest official figures.
Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, including some it has held for decades and others since the 2023-2024 war, and has advanced about 10 kilometres inside the southern border during the current war.
