By Abdul Adil
London, (The Muslim News): Six civilians were killed and eight others injured Thursday in Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon despite a renewed ceasefire agreement, according to Lebanese media reports.
According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, at least 3,433 people have been killed and 10,395 injured in Israeli attacks since March 2.
The conflict has displaced more than one million people and caused widespread damage to civilian infrastructure, including schools, healthcare facilities, mosques and churches.
The National News Agency NNA said that Israeli strikes on the town of Sohmor in the western Bekaa region killed five civilians, while four others were wounded.
Following the attacks, the municipality of Sohmor urged residents and visitors not to enter the town due to “serious security risks.”
“The (Israeli) enemy is sparing no one, including civilian men and women,” the municipality said in a statement carried by NNA, calling for full compliance with the warning.
In southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle in the town of Maaroub in the Tyre district, killing one person and injuring another, according to NNA.
The agency also said a civilian vehicle was struck on the Zefta-Nmeiriyeh road in the Marjayoun district, wounding a father, mother and their daughter from Jdeidet Marjayoun.
The injured were transferred to Al-Rai Hospital in Sidon for medical attention.
In a separate attack, an Israeli drone hit a vehicle on the Zefta-Kfarroumane road in Nabatieh, causing injuries, according to NNA.
The strikes came one day after Lebanon and Israel agreed to renew their fragile ceasefire and establish “pilot zones” placing the Lebanese army in exclusive territorial control, with all non-state actors excluded.
The agreement was announced in a joint statement released following a fourth round of US-mediated talks held at the State Department on Wednesday.
The US-sponsored talks followed weeks of near-daily Israeli strikes on Lebanon that have killed nearly 3,500 people since March 2, despite a ceasefire that took effect on April 17 and was later extended until early July.
After hours of signing the agreement between Lebanese government and Israel for ceasefire but Israel started bombing Lebanon soon after.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Thursday rejected the outcomes of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel.
In a statement marking the death anniversary of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, Qassem said the outcomes of the negotiations “are completely rejected by broad segments of the Lebanese people.”
He said the US-backed ceasefire understandings reflected American and Israeli visions for Lebanon’s future and sought to subject the country to what he called the “Greater Israel project.”
A joint Lebanese-US-Israeli statement announced early Thursday that Beirut and Tel Aviv had agreed during talks in Washington to implement a ceasefire based on a complete halt to Hezbollah fire and the withdrawal of all Hezbollah members from the area south of the Litani River.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the US would determine the timing and mechanism for implementing the ceasefire, which could begin within 24 hours of receiving approval.
The Hezbollah leader accused Israel of attempting “to achieve politically what it had failed to accomplish militarily.”
He added that Israeli settlements in northern Israel “will not be safe” as long as Lebanese villages remain under attack.
“We are only concerned with ending the aggression, securing a ceasefire, and ensuring Israel’s withdrawal,” he said.
Qassem stressed that any ceasefire must apply across all Lebanese territory, adding that as long as the Israeli occupation continues, “the resistance will continue.”
Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, some held for decades and others seized during the 2023–2024 conflict. During the current offensive, Israeli forces advanced more than 10 kilometers into Lebanese territory, marking their deepest incursion since 2000.
The US-sponsored talks followed weeks of near-daily Israeli strikes on Lebanon that have killed more than 3,500 people since March 2, despite a ceasefire that took effect on April 17 and was later extended until early July.
The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s Quds Force called Thursday for Israel to withdraw from positions it occupied in Lebanon before the outbreak of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
“Support for the resistance movement in Lebanon was a duty for all Muslims, and that removing Israel from the region was an achievable objective,” Esmail Qaani said in remarks carried by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
“The essence of the resistance’s demands is the withdrawal of the occupying regime (Israel) to the positions it held before the start of the 40-day war,” he added. Qaani said Lebanese fighters would soon see the results of what he described as their “steadfast resistance.”
The Israeli army said Thursday it will continue its ongoing offensive in southern Lebanon despite a trilateral declaration issued in Washington Wednesday announcing an agreement on a ceasefire. Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, some since decades ago and others since the 2023-2024 conflict.
Despite a ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, the Israeli army has killed 936 Palestinians and injured 2,903 in near-daily attacks, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Israeli army kills 9 Palestinians in Gaza
Nine Palestinians were killed, five from the same family, and dozens wounded, including women and children, in simultaneous Israeli airstrikes early Thursday targeting four residential apartments across Gaza City, according to medical sources.
The latest strikes come as Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement in force in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 10, 2025.
Nine bodies and dozens of wounded were received at Al-Shifa Hospital, an Anadolu correspondent at the scene reported, citing medical sources.
Some of the bodies arrived dismembered, while others were severely burned, the sources added.
According to eyewitnesses, an airstrike on an apartment in the Labad building on Intelligence Street in northwestern Gaza City killed five members of the same family — a man, his wife and their three children. A young girl from the family was wounded and taken to the hospital.
In the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood south of the city, a man and his wife were killed, and several others were wounded, one of them critically, after an airstrike targeted an apartment in the Al-Israa 1 building, eyewitnesses said.
Another Palestinian was killed and dozens of others were injured in an airstrike on a house belonging to the Mhanna family in Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City. Local sources said the strike triggered a large fire that spread to neighboring homes in the densely populated area.
In the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of the city, one Palestinian was killed and others were wounded when an airstrike hit an apartment in the Al-Ghoul building, causing a fire, according to eyewitnesses.
Witnesses said the raids caused widespread destruction to the targeted buildings and their surroundings, and sparked panic among residents after midnight.
Israel’s atttacks in Gaza since October 2023 has killed nearly 73,000 Palestinians and injured more than 173,000, most of them women and children, according to Palestinian figures.
Despite a ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, the Israeli army has killed 936 Palestinians and injured 2,903 in near-daily attacks, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
[Photo: People attend a funeral for a family of six, consisting of a father, mother, and four children, who were killed by Israeli strike on the town of Al-Mariwaniyeh, in Wardaniyeh, southern Lebanon, on June 3, 2026. Photojournalist: Houssam Shbaro/AA]
