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Israeli strikes kill seven in southern Lebanon

By Sohail Khan 7 September 2026, 12:52 am

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Israeli strikes killed seven people in southern Lebanon on Sunday. The Lebanese health ministry reported two women died in Arab Salim. A separate drone strike killed three more people in Nabatieh al-Tahta. Lebanon's president called the strikes a dangerous escalation targeting civilian areas. He held Israel responsible and urged international action to stop violations.

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a vehicle, in Gaza City — Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike on a vehicle, in Gaza City, September 6, 2026.

Israeli strikes killed seven people, including two women, in southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Lebanese health ministry said, as Israel retaliated for what it said were Hezbollah drone attacks within areas occupied by its troops.

Despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Hezbollah agreed in June, the Israeli military is operating in what it has declared a security zone in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon's health ministry said that two men were killed in a town on the ‌edge of the ⁠zone occupied ⁠by Israeli troops, while the two women were killed in Arab Salim, which sits well north of the occupied area.

The ministry later said a separate Israeli drone strike on Nabatieh al-Tahta in southern Lebanon had killed three people on Sunday.

The Israeli military had issued an online evacuation warning at 6 a.m. local (0300 GMT) for areas near a building in Arab Salim that it said it would strike because it was being used by Hezbollah. Two girls were among six others injured in ⁠that strike.

Lebanese ‌President Joseph Aoun's office called Sunday's strikes, which it said destroyed a hospital and damaged a finance ministry building, "a dangerous escalation" that targeted "purely civilian administrations and health centres".

"President ⁠Aoun held the Israeli side fully responsible for this ongoing escalation, calling on the United States and the international community to take immediate action to stop these violations and hold the perpetrators accountable," it said.

The Israeli military said its targets included what it described as Hezbollah weapons storage facilities and a command centre inside a building previously used as a hospital. It also said it used precision munitions and aerial surveillance to mitigate civilian harm.

Sunday's evacuation warning was only the second issued since the June ceasefire announcement.

The ‌first online evacuation order came on August 5 for residents of Mansouri, near Tyre, though Israel had already dropped leaflets on the village just a week into the ceasefire, telling residents to leave ahead of ⁠strikes.

Four people were killed and 23 injured across southern Lebanon on Friday, the health ministry said on Saturday, in Israeli strikes launched without evacuation warnings. The Israeli military said those strikes hit Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.

Hezbollah said on Saturday that Israel's continued escalation aimed to pressure the Lebanese government, which has been engaged in direct talks with Israel under U.S. auspices – negotiations that the Iran-backed group has rejected.

More than 4,300 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since March 2, when Hezbollah fired at Israel in support of Iran.

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