Israeli Strikes on Lebanon Leave Five Dead
Lebanon's Health Ministry confirmed two fatalities and one injury after an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment inside the Beddawi refugee camp in the northern city of Tripoli, according to a Lebanese news agency. The agency subsequently identified the victims as Wassim al-Ali, a Hamas member, and his wife. Their daughter sustained injuries and was transferred to hospital.
Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV had earlier reported casualties from the same strike targeting the apartment within the camp.
In a separate incident in the south, three people died when an Israeli drone struck a vehicle travelling along the Tyre-Naqoura road near the town of Qleileh, the news agency reported. Israeli aircraft additionally struck a residence in Shaabiyeh in the Tyre district, while warplanes unleashed heavy bombardment on the town of Qabrikha in the Marjayoun district of Nabatieh governorate. Casualty figures from those strikes were not immediately available.
The violence unfolded as Israeli airstrikes swept across multiple Lebanese areas in the early hours of Thursday, with the Ghobeiry district and Haret Hreik in Beirut's southern suburbs also coming under attack.
The fresh escalation follows a brutal Israeli military response earlier this week, after Hezbollah launched rockets and drones at a military site in northern Israel — strikes the group said were carried out in retaliation for ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during continued US-Israeli bombardment of Iran since Saturday. Israel answered with a wave of airstrikes that killed at least 72 people, wounded nearly 450 others, and included a ground incursion into southern Lebanon.
The strikes represent a continued pattern critics say has rendered a ceasefire agreement — signed between Israel and Hezbollah in November 2024 — effectively meaningless. Despite the accord, Israel has carried out near-daily strikes on Lebanese territory, leaving hundreds dead and wounded. While Israeli authorities maintain the operations target Hezbollah infrastructure, the NNA has consistently reported that civilian facilities have been hit.
Israel launched its original offensive against Lebanon in October 2023, escalating into full-scale war by September 2024. The campaign has since killed more than 4,000 people and wounded approximately 17,000 others.
The death toll across the broader region continues to mount. The ongoing US-Israeli assault on Iran, now in its fifth day, has killed nearly 900 people — including Supreme Leader Khamenei and senior military commanders. Tehran has responded with retaliatory drone and missile strikes directed at Israel and at Gulf states hosting US military assets, pushing the entire region closer to the edge of all-out war.
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