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01 May 2026•Update: 02 May 2026
At least 23 people were killed and several others injured in fresh Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Friday despite a temporary ceasefire, according to the National News Agency (NNA).
The news agency, citing the Health Ministry, said an Israeli strike targeted the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, killing two people and injuring 10 others.
Meanwhile, rescue teams recovered five bodies from the rubble of a building in Kfar Roummane of Nabatieh hit in an overnight strike.
The agency said civil defense crews and ambulance teams from the Islamic Risala Scout Association cleared debris in Nabatieh after the strike. The building had been targeted by Israeli warplanes.
In the town of Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain, two people were killed and two others injured in an Israeli airstrike, while a Lebanese woman was killed and four others were wounded after a house was shelled in the town of Ain Baal, east of Tyre.
Eight people, including a child and two women, were killed and 28 others injured, also including a child and a woman, in the town of Habbouch in Nabatieh district, the Health Ministry said.
Israeli airstrikes on the town of Zrariyeh in Sidon district killed four people, including two women, and injured four others, including a child and a woman.
Another person was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Borj Qalaouiye in Bint Jbeil district.
In response to Hezbollah’s retaliation to the Iran war, Israel has waged an offensive in Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 2,600 people, and displacing over 1 million.
A 10-day ceasefire that began on April 17 was later extended until May 17, but Israel continues to violate it daily through airstrikes and the demolition of homes. It also maintains a so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon, saying it is meant to prevent attacks from Hezbollah. An earlier truce was reached in November 2024.
*Writing by Rania Abushamala in Istanbul