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Israeli air strikes on Tuesday killed at least 19 people across southern Lebanon, including three children and four women, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. A single strike on Deir Qanoun al Nahr in coastal Tyre province killed 10 people — among them three children and three women — destroying a house and leaving several victims buried under rubble. Separate strikes on the city of Nabatieh and the nearby village of Kfar Sir killed four and five people respectively. Israel's military said it had targeted more than 25 Hezbollah infrastructure sites in southern Lebanon in the 24-hour period, while new figures show Israeli attacks have damaged 22 percent of Lebanon's agricultural land and displaced 78 percent of farmers in the south.
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Lebanon's death toll from the conflict has surpassed 3,000, with the Health Ministry recording 3,020 fatalities as of Monday — more than 400 of them since the ceasefire took effect on 17 April. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he was ready to "do the impossible" to stop the war, outlining Lebanon's negotiating framework as requiring an Israeli withdrawal, army deployment along the border, the return of displaced persons, and economic aid. Hezbollah, which is not party to the Washington talks and has opposed them, said it struck an Iron Dome platform at a military encampment in northern Israel using a drone. The two sides are expected to resume negotiations at the beginning of June.
Despite agreeing to a 45-day extension of a ceasefire with Lebanon, Israel launched a series of air strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding more than a dozen others. The Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed deaths in the municipalities of Tayr Felsay and Tayr Debba — where a child was among the victims in each location — as well as in the village of Jouaiya. Reporting from Tyre, a port city in southern Lebanon, journalists on the ground described an intensification of attacks even as the truce was formally extended.
The original ceasefire, which came into force on 17 April and was due to expire on Sunday, had never been fully observed. The extension was agreed following a second round of direct talks in Washington between Lebanese and Israeli delegations — the most significant direct contact between the two countries in decades, as they do not hold diplomatic relations. The new truce is intended to allow a US-facilitated security track to begin on 29 May, with a further round of negotiations scheduled for 2 and 3 June in Washington. Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was
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