Overview
- Overnight airstrikes on Monday hit the village of Kfar Rumman, killing at least 11 people including children and two medics and wounding others, Lebanon’s state media and health authorities reported.
- On Sunday earlier raids killed at least seven people in Nabatieh and Arab Salim and destroyed the out-of-service Ghandour hospital while damaging local finance ministry offices, Lebanon’s health ministry and president said.
- The Israeli military says the strikes were carried out in retaliation after Hezbollah launched explosive drones toward Israeli troops positioned inside a self-declared roughly 10 km security zone, and it issued evacuation warnings for some targeted buildings.
- Hezbollah has not publicly confirmed the specific drone attacks, and Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun blamed Israel for escalation and called on the U.S. and U.N. to intervene to stop the attacks.
- Humanitarian and diplomatic fallout is rising as strikes on residential areas and state medical facilities occur without consistent evacuation warnings, threatening to derail the U.S.-brokered June framework and deepen regional tensions after a conflict that has killed thousands since March.