{"id":479998,"date":"2026-06-06T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/479998\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:12:11","slug":"israeli-attacks-in-lebanon-kill-12-people-including-high-ranking-officers-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/479998\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli attacks in Lebanon kill 12 people, including high-ranking officers | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"

High-ranking Lebanese army officers are among at least 12 people killed in Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon<\/a>, days after the countries agreed to a conditional ceasefire during United States-mediated talks.<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s army said a brigadier general, a captain and a soldier, died in an Israeli strike on a military vehicle on the Khardali-Nabatieh road.<\/p>\n

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The Israeli army said Saturday\u2019s attack was in an \u201cactive combat zone\u201d, and that \u201cmovement in a combat zone requires coordination\u201d with the Israeli army. It added that \u201cthe incident remains under investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese army said that \u201cthe continuation of the deliberate and repeated brutal Israeli aggression \u2026 is aimed at thwarting all efforts to reach a solution\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun condemned the attack as a \u201cflagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and of international laws and norms\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam described it as \u201ca heinous crime and an attack on Lebanon and all Lebanese people\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Salam extended his condolences to the families and colleagues of Brigadier General Wassam Sabra, Captain Elie Khoury and soldier Hussein Ghozal, as well as to the Lebanese army itself.<\/p>\n

Later on Saturday, Lebanon\u2019s army said that its commander General Rudolf Haykal was heading to Pakistan for talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Field Marshal Asim Munir.<\/p>\n

Haykal\u2019s visit comes as Pakistan continues efforts to mediate talks to end the US-Israel war on Iran, with Israeli attacks on Lebanon one of the sticking points.<\/p>\n

\u2018Heinous crime against Lebanon\u2019<\/p>\n

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said Saturday\u2019s attack was a \u201cheinous crime\u201d and accused the Lebanese government of exposing its country to bloodshed through the \u201ccomplete surrender to the enemy\u2019s demands in Washington\u201d.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said that the killings reaffirms that Israel \u201cis laying claim to Lebanon in all its components\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media, Baghaei described the attack as \u201ca heinous crime against Lebanon, its army, and its sovereignty, and a clear message of aggression stating that Israel desires no security, stability, or prosperity for Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regional countries also denounced the attack.\u00a0In a statement on social media, Saudi Arabia condemned the attack and \u201cthe continuing Israeli aggression against the sisterly Lebanese Republic, affirming its total rejection of any targeting of Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and its army\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jordan said it was \u201ca flagrant violation of the sovereignty, security, and stability of brotherly Lebanon, and a blatant breach of international law\u201d. Its foreign ministry \u201caffirmed the necessity of an immediate halt to Israeli aggressions against Lebanon [and] the consolidation of the ceasefire agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n

Qatar said it was a \u201cdangerous escalation and a blatant violation of the sovereignty\u201d of Lebanon. The foreign ministry called on the international community to compel \u201cthe Israeli occupation authorities to cease their repeated attacks on Lebanon, to respect international conventions and laws, and to fully implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701\u201d.<\/p>\n

The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) said such attacks \u201cconstitute gross violations of Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty, territorial integrity and Security Council Resolution 1701\u201d. That UN resolution ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. It also formed the basis of a November 2024 truce between the two sides.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Ali Hashem, reporting from Beirut, said that this is not the first time Lebanese army soldiers or officers have been killed in Israeli attacks, adding that more than 50 have been killed since the start of the conflict on March 2.<\/p>\n

However, \u201cthis is the first time that such a high-ranking general was killed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A lot of rhetoric has come from Lebanese officials, \u201cbut there\u2019s nothing that the government can do. A few weeks ago, more than 13 national security personnel were killed and nothing was really done by the government,\u201d said Hashem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing the government could do over the past weeks was to withdraw its troops from the southern villages and towns that, at the moment, the Israelis are approaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"InLebanese Red Cross personnel and rescue workers at the scene of the Israeli air strike that killed three soldiers including a brigadier general, June 6, 2026 [Lebanese Army via AP]Lebanon\u2019s \u2018real foe\u2019<\/p>\n

Separately, an Israeli air strike on the southern village of Saksakiyah in Sidon district killed six people and wounded four others, reported Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency (NNA). Another person was killed in an Israeli drone strike targetting a car in Deir al-Zahrani in Nabatieh district.<\/p>\n

At least one person was killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Zifta-Nabatieh highway later on Saturday, reported NNA, with another person killed in a separate Israeli air raid in the Habboush municipality in Nabatieh district.<\/p>\n

Israel also renewed forced displacement orders for the southern Lebanese villages of Armati, Mashgara, Kafr Huna, Sajad and Ansariya, ordering residents to move north of the Zahrani River.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military said it had struck around 150 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon over the past two days.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the weekend, [the Israeli army] struck weapons storage facilities, command centres, rocket launchers, and additional Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites,\u201d it said in a statement, adding the sites had been used \u201cto advance and execute terror attacks against [Israeli] soldiers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Late on Saturday, the Israeli military said that two of its soldiers had been killed in southern Lebanon, one after sustaining serious injuries, while the other was killed during \u201can operational activity\u201d in the area.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah said its fighters struck a Merkava tank at the newly established Blat outpost in the Bint Jbeil area, using an Ababil swooping drone and claiming a confirmed hit.<\/p>\n

A ceasefire that was supposed to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah started on April 17, but has never been fully respected. Hezbollah and Israel have frequently exchanged accusations of violations, with each justifying its own attacks by citing alleged violations committed by the other side.<\/p>\n

A further conditional ceasefire was announced by Lebanese and Israeli envoys this week in Washington.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected that ceasefire<\/a> as it did not include Hezbollah or provide for Israel\u2019s withdrawal from southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

While Israel and Hezbollah continue to fight, the Lebanese army has historically avoided confrontations and has not engaged in the current conflict.<\/p>\n

The latest outbreak of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel began at the beginning of March after the group said it was acting in support of Tehran. At least 3,593 people have been killed and 10,990 others injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon since March 2, according to the latest figures from Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi rejected comments made by President Aoun that Beirut was a bargaining chip for Tehran during its negotiations with the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad Lebanon been a bargaining chip for Iran, we\u2019d have a deal long ago,\u201d he posted on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cSave Lebanon from your real foe, Mr President.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High-ranking Lebanese army officers are among at least 12 people killed in Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon, days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,85,46,48084,88,47,2899,43],"class_list":["post-479998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}