Israel ​said its military attacked Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s ‌southern suburbs on Sunday (June 14, 2026) after the Lebanese ​armed group fired into ⁠Israeli territory.

The Israeli military said earlier that Hezbollah had launched three projectiles towards communities in northern Israel, ‌calling it a blatant ceasefire violation.

West Asia war updates on June 14, 2026

“The IDF has now attacked ‌terrorist targets of the Hezbollah terrorist ‌organization ⁠in the Dahiyeh neighborhood of ⁠Beirut, in response to Hezbollah’s firing into Israeli territory,” a joint statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ​and Defense Minister ‌Israel Katz said.

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on the Israeli statement, but the group said it launched ‌missiles and drones towards Israeli troops ​in southern Lebanon.

Last week, an Israeli strike on Dahiyeh triggered ⁠an exchange of fire between Israel and Iran that threatened to derail a U.S.-Iran deal ‌that would end the wider war.

Washington and Tehran appear to be getting closer to a deal to end the more than three-month-long conflict, with U.S. and Pakistani leaders forecast a ‌signing on Sunday.

Iran has long made the ​cessation of fighting in Lebanon a condition for any wider agreement with ⁠the United States.

Lebanese security sources said ⁠the attack on Dahiyeh appeared to be a targeted strike with two ‌missiles. 

The U.S. naval ​blockade of Iran and ‌its green light on ​Sunday (June 7, 2026) for ⁠Israel to escalate attacks in Lebanon make U.S. bases ‌and Israeli assets in the ‌West Asia legitimate ‌targets, ⁠Iran’s top negotiator ⁠said in a post on X.

The comments from ​Iran’s ‌Parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, follow Israeli attacks on the southern ‌suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, ​a stronghold of Iran’s ally ⁠Hezbollah.

“They are neither committed to a ceasefire ‌nor believe in dialogue, and through the naval blockade and violation of agreements regarding Lebanon they ‌showed that they only understand ​the language of power,” Mr. Qalibaf ⁠said in an apparent reference ⁠to the U.S. and Israel.

Israel said Iran has launched missiles at it in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, complicating mediation efforts for a deal to end the war.

Iran’s military central command said on Sunday (June 7, 2026) that Israel’s latest strike on the southern Beirut suburbs had “crossed all red lines”, demanding a halt to its campaign in Lebanon.

After the missiles attack at Israel, Israeli military chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir vowed on Sunday (June 7) that the military would strike Iran “with force” upon receiving orders.

“The IDF will strike the enemy with force as soon as the green light is given,” Mr. Zamir said in a statement as he conducted a situational assessment, the military said.

Iran Revolutionary Guards’ warning to Israel

“The Israeli army must stop its attacks on southern Lebanon and the suburbs, and if it expands its attacks to that region or responds to Iran’s action, it will face more devastating and regrettable blows,” said General Ali Abollahi, the head of the Khatam al-Anbiya command, without directly mentioning missile salvos that Israel said it was intercepting.

Tehran had warned of retaliation after Israel on Sunday (June 7, 2026) struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in defiance of Washington’s request days ago to stand down.

Israel called it retaliation for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah firing at northern Israel earlier in the day.

Israel’s attack on Beirut came a few days after the Lebanese and Israeli governments agreed to a ceasefire in U.S.-hosted talks, though Hezbollah rejected the deal.

The strike on a residential building killed two people and wounded 20, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.

(With inputs from AP, AFP)

India has condemned the attack on United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon that killed a Serbian Blue Helmet and injured two others, and called for an immediate and thorough investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Sergeant Milovan Jovanovic, a Serbian peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), was killed when a mortar struck a UN position near Marji’yun in Sector East of the mission’s area of operations on Wednesday (June 3, 2026).

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“Two other peacekeepers from Spain and El Salvador were injured and are undergoing treatment at a UNIFIL medical facility in south Lebanon,” the UN said.

“Our sincere condolences to Serbia and to the family of the Serbian Blue Helmet of UNIFIL who was killed in this deplorable attack,” India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni said in a social media post on Thursday (June 4, 2026).

Blue Helmets refers to military personnel, police officers, and civilian experts serving under the operational command of the United Nations peacekeeping forces.

The envoy also wished a swift recovery to the injured peacekeepers and stressed that the international community “must come together to ensure the safety and security of UN peacekeepers” operating under UN Security Council mandates.

In a statement, the Permanent Mission of India to the UN condemned the attack, paid tribute to the fallen peacekeeper and wished an early recovery to the injured personnel.

It called for an immediate and thorough investigation into the attack to bring the perpetrators to justice and ensure full accountability.

“India reiterates the fundamental importance of respecting the sanctity and inviolability of UN premises and personnel. We call upon all parties to ensure the safety and security of UN peacekeepers, who operate under UN Security Council mandates,” the statement said.

India also urged full adherence to UN Security Council Resolution 2589 on Accountability for Crimes against Peacekeepers, adopted in August 2021 under the country’s Presidency of the Council.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned the attack, underscoring that all attacks on peacekeepers must be promptly investigated, and those responsible must be effectively prosecuted and held accountable.

A statement by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, noted that seven UNIFIL peacekeepers have been killed and several others wounded since the escalation of hostilities in March this year.

“Attacks on peacekeepers must stop,” Mr. Guterres said, adding that they are grave violations of international humanitarian law and of Security Council resolutions and “may amount to war crimes”.

In March, India condemned attacks on UN peacekeepers deployed in Lebanon and joined nearly 30 troop-contributing countries to UNIFIL in expressing deep alarm at the escalation of hostilities in the West Asian country and condemning Hezbollah’s “reckless decision” to join the Iranian attacks against Israel.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday (May 25, 2026) called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‌to resume bombing Beirut in response to increased explosive drone attacks by ​Hezbollah on Israeli troops and northern Israel towns. Mr. Smotrich’s comments came after an ⁠Israeli soldier was killed by a Hezbollah drone attack on Sunday (May 24, 2026). Israeli media reported that Mr. Smotrich made similar remarks at a cabinet meeting on Sunday (May 24, 2026).

“The explosive drones harming our fighters are not ‌a decree of fate,” he said in a statement. “For every explosive drone, 10 buildings should fall in Beirut.” Israeli media reported that Mr. Netanyahu rejected Mr. Smotrich’s demands and ‌preferred defensive measures. A Netanyahu spokesperson declined to comment.

Mr. Smotrich, leader of a small ‌far-right ⁠party in Mr. Netanyahu’s cabinet, has frequently made comments that go beyond official Israeli ⁠policy, including that Israel must annex southern Lebanon and Gaza.

Another ultranationalist minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, said Israel must not normalise the reality of explosive drones. “It is time for the Prime Minister to bang on (President Donald) Trump’s desk ​and tell him that we ‌are returning to war in Lebanon,” Mr. Ben Gvir said.

Drones used for attacks

In recent weeks, Hezbollah has used cheap, easy-to-assemble First Person View kamikaze drones to transform the war it has been fighting since it began firing on Israel on March 2, ‌days after the U.S.-Israeli forces began their attacks on Iran.

Controlled with fiber-optic cables, ​the FPV drones can evade Israel’s high-tech jamming technologies to target its troops occupying southern Lebanon during a shaky ceasefire announced on April 16, a ⁠week after the truce in the wider Iran war began. Except for a strike targeting a Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs earlier this month, there have been no strikes on ‌the capital or its surroundings since the U.S. announced a ceasefire on April 16. However, Israel has traded fire with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah called for a rally in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday (May 25, 2026) evening to mark the 26th anniversary of Liberation Day, when Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000.

On Sunday (May 24, 2026) evening, Hezbollah head Naim Qassem ramped up his rhetoric against the Lebanese state, saying that people had a right ‌to take to the streets and overthrow the Lebanese government, although he stopped short of making a ​direct call for Hezbollah’s supporters to do so. Mr. Smotrich said he had approved a 2 billion shekel ($693 million) budget for technological solutions to address the ⁠drone threat.

“The response to a significant threat must be significant,” Mr. Smotrich said, adding Israel needs to ⁠change the rules and the equation.

Polls show Mr. Smotrich’s party struggling to pass the threshold to get into parliament in an election later this year.

Israeli media ‌reported that during the cabinet meeting, military chief of staff Eyal Zamir also said that buildings in Beirut should be struck in response to the drone attacks. ​A military spokesperson declined to confirm his comments.

Israeli strikes killed three people in Lebanon on Wednesday (April 22, 2026), Lebanese state media said, despite an ongoing 10-day ceasefire, which an official said Beirut will request an extension for in the upcoming talks with Israel in Washington.

Ahead of the talks on Thursday (April 23, 2026), Israel called on the Lebanese government to “work together” with it against Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

The two governments, which do not have diplomatic relations with each other, are set to hold a second round of talks under U.S. auspices on Thursday (April 23, 2026), in a bid to end more than six weeks of war between Israel and Hezbollah that began on March 2.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (March 29, 2026) that he had ordered the military to “further expand” a security zone in Lebanon as Israel continues its campaign in the neighbouring country.

“In Lebanon, I have just ordered the military to further expand the existing security zone,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a video statement.

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“This is intended to definitively neutralise the threat of invasion [by Hezbollah militants] and to keep anti-tank missile fire away from the border.”

Mr. Netanyahu, during a visit to the northern command, said that Hezbollah still retained “residual capabilities” to fire rockets at Israel, but the group had been severely hit by Israeli forces.

“Iran is no longer the same Iran, Hezbollah is no longer the same Hezbollah, and Hamas is no longer the same Hamas,” he said.

“These are no longer terrorist armies threatening our existence — they are defeated enemies, fighting for their own survival.”

“We are determined, we are fighting, and with God’s help — we are winning,” Mr. Netanyahu said.

Israeli soldiers raided a municipal government building in a border village in southern Lebanon early on Thursday (October 30, 2025) and killed an employee, Lebanese state media said.

The incident in the town of Blida sparked condemnation by Lebanese officials and a protest by residents.

The Israeli army said in a statement that the soldiers had entered to “destroy terrorist infrastructure” belonging to the militant group Hezbollah and “identified a suspect” inside the building who they attempted to apprehend.

It said they had fired to “neutralize a threat” and that the details of the incident were under investigation.

Since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire nominally halted the latest Israel-Hezbollah war last November, Israel has continued to launch near-daily strikes on Lebanon, saying it is targeting Hezbollah militants, facilities and weapons. Its forces have also continued to occupy several strategic points on the Lebanese side of the border.

However, raids by ground forces like the one in Blida are rare.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that the municipal employee, Ibrahim Salameh, had been killed “while he was performing his professional duties.”

The state-run National News Agency reported that the Israeli forces had entered the village around 1:30 a.m. and stormed the municipality building, where Salameh was sleeping.

Salameh “usually slept in the municipality,” said Tahsin Kaour, a local official. “He heard a noise outside suddenly and went to the window to see what was going on, and they shot him.”

Lebanese officials say Israel’s strikes often harm civilians and destroy infrastructure unrelated to Hezbollah and have called for Israeli forces to withdraw.

Residents in Blida expressed anger toward the Lebanese army and the United Nations peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL, who they said were failing to protect civilians. Residents confronted UNIFIL peacekeepers who arrived in the village Thursday morning and asked them to leave.

“We want the government to protect us, to protect the people, for the Lebanese army to protect us,” Kaour said.

Aoun’s statement said he had requested the Lebanese army to “confront any Israeli incursion” into southern Lebanon “in defense of Lebanese lands and the safety of citizens,” although it was not clear what form that confrontation would take.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in a separate statement that Lebanese authorities are “following up to pressure the United Nations and the countries sponsoring the cessation of hostilities agreement to ensure a halt to the repeated violations and the implementation of a complete Israeli withdrawal from our lands.”

The most recent Israel-Hezbollah conflict began the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel triggered the war in Gaza.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas and the Palestinians. Israel responded with airstrikes and shelling. The low-level conflict escalated into full-scale war in September 2024.