Israeli airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon killed at least ten people over a 24-hour period, including six paramedics and a child, Lebanon's health ministry announced on Friday. The strikes placed further strain on a fragile US-brokered ceasefire that has been in place since 17 April, with Lebanese authorities condemning the attacks as violations of international law.

In the southern town of Hanaway, four paramedics from the Islamic Health Association — a body affiliated with Hezbollah — were killed in an Israeli strike overnight Thursday into Friday. Hours later, a strike in Deir Qanoun En-Nahr, in the coastal Tyre province of southern Lebanon, killed six people including two medics and a Syrian child. Lebanon's health ministry released a video, whose location was independently verified, that appeared to show medics in yellow vests tending to a casualty when a nearby ambulance triggered a blast, leaving the responders on the ground. Israel's military said it was examining claims that "uninvolved individuals" had been harmed in both incidents, stating it had struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Hanaway and targeted two Hezbollah militants on motorcycles in Deir Qanoun En-Nahr.

Striking continued into Friday night. Israel's military issued evacuation warnings for two areas of Tyre — a major city in southern Lebanon — and the village of Burj Rahal to the north-east. An AFP correspondent in Tyre reported two blasts and plumes of smoke as buildings were hit, while civil defence officials used loudspeakers to urge residents to leave. Five additional Israeli airstrikes were reported shortly before midnight in the mountainous Nabi Sreij area near Brital, a zone that had been spared attacks since the ceasefire began. In response, Hezbollah announced it had carried out 18 separate attacks using rockets and drones targeting Israeli military positions and vehicles in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, framing the strikes as retaliation for Israeli ceasefire violations.

Since the conflict in Lebanon began on 2 March, when Hezbollah fired on Israel following the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei in the early days of a US-Israeli confrontation with Iran, more than 3,100 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to official figures. The dead include 123 medical workers, 210 children, and nearly 300 women. Several hospitals in southern Lebanon have been damaged or put out of service, according to the World Health Organization.

The latest violence comes at a diplomatically sensitive moment. The United States recently imposed sanctions on several individuals it accused of undermining peace efforts, including two Lebanese security officers alleged to have shared intelligence with Hezbollah, as well as Hezbollah parliamentarians and figures linked to the allied Amal movement. Both the Lebanese army and the General Directorate of General Security issued statements reaffirming their forces' loyalty exclusively to Lebanese state institutions. Meanwhile, Lebanese and Israeli military delegations are expected to hold US-hosted talks later this month, as Washington pushes for a long-term political agreement — an effort Hezbollah has publicly rejected.