{"id":499173,"date":"2026-06-18T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:20:11","slug":"israeli-attacks-on-southern-lebanon-kill-three-despite-us-iran-deal-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499173\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon kill three despite US-Iran deal | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon continue in spite of a US-Iran deal that would mean ceasing military operations.<\/p>\n

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Published On 18 Jun 202618 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

Israeli air attacks on southern Lebanon have killed at least three people, Lebanese state media has reported, a day after the United States and Iran signed<\/a> an interim agreement that called for an end to their war on all fronts, including Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Thursday that an Israeli drone attack hit a car near the town of Kfar Tebnit, killing two people.<\/p>\n

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At least one person was killed in a separate Israeli strike in Zabadin, the news agency reported.<\/p>\n

NNA also reported that a strike carried out by an Israeli drone in the town of Beit Yahoun in the Nabatieh governorate wounded two people.<\/p>\n

The strikes occurred as Israel faces pressure to halt its attacks on Lebanon and pull out all occupying forces as part of the agreement with the US-Iran agreement to extend their ceasefire.<\/p>\n

However, Israel\u2019s military released a map<\/a> on Thursday showing what it says are the current positions of its forces inside southern Lebanon, extending about 10km (6.2 miles) into Lebanese territory, along its \u201cYellow Line\u201d, a framework similar to the Israeli military measure<\/a> in the besieged Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

This map not only extends into Lebanon\u2019s land, but also its maritime territory, which would violate the Lebanon-Israel 2022 maritime agreement if Israel occupies it, according to maritime legal experts<\/a>. This part of the sea also contains Lebanon\u2019s Qana gas project, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed to Lebanon under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement with Israel.<\/p>\n

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Domestically, Netanyahu is reportedly facing pressure from party members to take a harder line with the US over Lebanon. \u201cPrime Minister Netanyahu needs to tell Trump \u2018enough\u2019,\u201d Moshe Saada, a politician from Netanyahu\u2019s ruling Likud party, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am bound to defend Israelis, and withdrawing from Lebanon right now poses an existential threat to Israel. Duty demands that we strike Lebanon everywhere, around the clock, with maximum force and with no proportionality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera\u2019s Zeina Khodr said that over recent days, \u201cthere\u2019s been a reduction in violence, in the sense that we are no longer seeing an intense Israel bombing campaign across southern Lebanon, but there have still been Israeli drone strikes over the past few days causing casualties\u201d.<\/p>\n

Khodr said that \u201cHezbollah feels very empowered by this deal [between the US and Iran], believing that Iran has given it leverage [to strike back at Israel].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHezbollah has been responding to those strikes, sending a clear message that it is not going to accept a one-sided ceasefire. In fact, the Israeli army has acknowledged that one of its soldiers has been killed and others injured in two Hezbollah attacks in southern Lebanon,\u201d Khodr said. \u201cHezbollah is telling the Lebanese government it\u2019s not going to accept disarmament.\u201d<\/p>\n

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