An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon on Saturday (June 6, 2026) killed several members of the Lebanese military, including a senior officer, the Lebanese army said, days after the two sides reached a new ceasefire deal.

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An airstrike on the road linking the city of Nabatiyeh with the town of Marjayoun occurred in the morning, killing a brigadier general, a captain, and another soldier, the army said without immediately releasing their names.

Another airstrike on the southern village of Saksakiyah killed six people and wounded four, state-run National News Agency said.

“The continued, deliberate, and repeated Israeli aggression against Lebanon, its people and its army only strengthens our resolve, faith and determination,” the army said in its statement.

It said Israel’s attacks aim to thwart all efforts “to reach a solution that would restore stability, establish a comprehensive ceasefire and lead to the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories.”

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the airstrike that killed the troops.

The latest declared ceasefire came about through U.S.-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon’s government, which accuses Hezbollah of dragging the country into war and had made efforts to disarm it before the latest hostilities. The Lebanese militant group has refused the truce.

The airstrikes came a day after Lebanon’s President and Prime Minister criticized Iran for opposing the latest ceasefire deal between the Lebanese government and Israel, saying their country should not be used by Tehran as a “bargaining chip” in its talks with Washington.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded in a post on X on Saturday (June 6, 2026) by saying that after President Joseph Aoun’s comments, “one would think it’s Iran that has occupied a fifth of Lebanon, displaced a quarter of Lebanese and is bombing his country on daily basis.”

“Had Lebanon been a bargaining chip for Iran, we’d have a deal long ago. Save Lebanon from your real foe, Mr. President,” Araghchi said in reference to Israel.

The war began on March 2 when Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel, two days after Israel and the U.S. began their attacks on Iran. Israel has since launched a ground invasion of Lebanon and carried out wide attacks that have displaced more than 1 million people.

Israeli troops have seized around a fifth of Lebanon, pushing further into the country’s south than at any time since the end of Israel’s 1982-2000 occupation.

More than 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon since the war began. The fighting has killed at least 29 Israeli soldiers and three civilians.

The new ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon could help remove a major obstacle to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. Last week, Iran suspended talks with the U.S. in protest against Israel’s escalating war in Lebanon. In April, when Mr. Trump announced an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, he had said that Israel was “prevented” from attacking the country any longer. But Tel Aviv continued air strikes and expanded ground operations in southern Lebanon. Iran has maintained that in its April 8 ceasefire with the U.S., Washington had promised that the ceasefire would come into force on all fronts, including Lebanon. Now, after Iran paused talks with the U.S., Mr. Trump swung into action. He claimed that he had talked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of his plans to bomb Beirut and had a conversation with Hezbollah’s representatives, who agreed “not to shoot”. The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire statement followed Mr. Trump’s announcement. Mr. Trump’s firm diplomatic intervention, which reportedly included an expletive-laden call with Mr. Netanyahu, points to the importance he gives to the diplomatic process. Before the Lebanon crisis flared up, the U.S. and Iran were negotiating a memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and remove the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, which would set the stage for negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme.

While the ceasefire agreement is welcome, it remains fragile and incomplete, leaving the conflict’s key problems unaddressed. The actual fighting in Lebanon is between Israel and Hezbollah. The Lebanese government is not a party to the conflict and Hezbollah does not report to the Lebanese army. But Hezbollah was not part of the negotiations. The ceasefire agreement requires Hezbollah to unilaterally cease attacks, but it does not ask Israel to make concessions. Hezbollah says it would stop fighting only if Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon. Israel, which has made its deepest incursions into southern Lebanon since its 2000 withdrawal, is not talking about any withdrawal plan. Israel has also broken all its ceasefire agreements in recent years. Despite a truce deal, it continues to bomb Gaza. Mr. Trump’s announcement of a new ceasefire despite an existing one highlights the fragility of the truce. What he is trying to do is to bring in a stop-gap arrangement in Lebanon to push his planned deal with Iran. But for this to work, he should get firm commitments from Israel that it would not break the terms. For a lasting truce in Lebanon, Israel has to end its illegal occupation of the south and pull back its troops.

Israeli strikes overnight in the historic south Lebanon city of Tyre killed seven people, a source from the civil defence told AFP on Friday (June 5, 2026), despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

One strike near Jabal Amel hospital killed four people, wounded seven and lightly damaged the facility, while another in a residential area killed three and wounded five, including two children.

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Later on Friday (June 5, 2026) the Israeli military issued new evacuation warnings for nine southern Lebanese towns and villages, with Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reporting people were fleeing.

Lebanon was drawn into the wider Middle East war when Hezbollah attacked Israel on March 2 to avenge the February 28 killing of Iran’s supreme leader.

A conditional truce was announced by Lebanese and Israeli envoys this week that would require Hezbollah to stop firing, withdraw from near the border and would see Lebanon’s army deploy to new “pilot zones” in the area.

But Hezbollah has rejected the agreement, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

On Friday an AFP correspondent saw a bank heavily damaged near the Jabal Amel medical facility, one of three hospitals in Tyre.

The hospital has been damaged by strikes on several occasions during the war, most recently in a major attack on Monday that killed four people and wounded 127, including 39 staff.

Following Israeli orders for residents to leave most of Tyre, many people have sought shelter in its small Old City, which has so far been spared evacuation warnings and strikes. It is where the Christian quarter is located.

With shelters full, displaced people have been sleeping in cars or tents, but many have left since the Israeli army claimed on Tuesday that Hezbollah members were operating in the area, according to the AFP correspondent.

On Wednesday night, a drone strike landed near a park in Tyre where dozens of displaced Syrians were sheltering in tents, the correspondent reported.

Locals have organised a petition calling for Tyre to be declared an “open city” free of any armed presence except Lebanon’s military. It has so far garnered around 250 signatures, including local lawyers and intellectuals.

Hezbollah has a strong presence in Tyre, and some signatories have faced online attacks over their stance.

More than 500 people have also signed a similar petition for Nabatieh, another large south Lebanon city that has come under Israeli attack.

Since the war began on March 2, Israeli strikes have killed at least 3,526 people, Lebanon’s health ministry said Thursday (June 4, 2026).

U.S. Secretary of ​State Marco Rubio spoke with both Lebanese President ‌Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ​Netanyahu on the diplomatic ⁠negotiations between Israel and Lebanon and has proposed a plan to allow for “gradual de-escalation,” a U.S. ‌official said on Sunday (May 31, 2026).

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The U.S. has proposed that as a ‌first step, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group ‌would ⁠stop all attacks on Israel and ⁠in return Israel would refrain from escalation in Beirut, the official said.

“This would create space for gradual ​de-escalation and an effective ‌cessation of hostilities,” according to the official.

The official added that Mr. Aoun tried to advance the proposal and secure an agreement. ‌However, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who ​claimed to “guarantee” Hezbollah’s commitment to a ceasefire, placed the burden on ⁠Israel to stop “shooting first.”

Mr. Netanyahu had said on Sunday (May 31, 2026) that he ordered troops to ‌move further into Lebanon in the battle against Hezbollah, despite a ceasefire announced more than six weeks ago.

In the latest advance, Israeli troops seized the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle and a strategic ridge in ‌southern Lebanon, the military said earlier on Sunday (May 31, 2026), a ​day after one of the heaviest days of Hezbollah fire toward northern ⁠Israel since the April ceasefire, prompting school closures ⁠and restrictions.

The U.S. official said that the U.S. did not ‌expect Israel to absorb ongoing attacks on its civilians from Hezbollah.

Israel’s military on Monday (May 25, 2026) warned residents of 10 villages, most of them in southern Lebanon, to evacuate their homes ahead of expected strikes against alleged Hezbollah targets.

“In light of Hezbollah’s violation of the ceasefire agreement, the Israel Defense Forces are compelled to operate against it with force,” the military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, said in a social media post, listing the names of the villages.

“For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move at least 1,000 metres away from these towns and villages to open areas,” said IDF.

Israeli strikes targeted eastern and southern Lebanon on Sunday (May 17, 2026), state media reported, despite a fragile ceasefire, as a Hezbollah lawmaker called Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel a “dead-end”.

Two Israeli strikes hit the town of Sohmor in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said, adding that others took place across southern Lebanon.

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Israeli attacks since the start of the war have killed more than 2,900 people in Lebanon, including more than 400 since the truce began on April 17, according to Lebanese authorities.

The latest strikes came after Envoys from Israel and Lebanon held a third round of negotiations in Washington and agreed to extend the ceasefire.

Nevertheless, fighting has continued, with Israeli strikes and Hezbollah attacks on Israeli forces.

Iran-backed Hezbollah has repeatedly denounced talks with Israel.

“The direct negotiations that the authorities in Lebanon have conducted with the Israeli enemy have… led them down a dead-end path that will result in nothing but one concession after another,” Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein Hajj Hassan said on Sunday (May 17, 2026).

“Neither they nor anyone else will be able to carry out what the enemy wants, especially when it comes to the issue of disarming the resistance,” he said, adding that the authorities are bringing the country to “very big predicaments”.

On Saturday (May 16, 2026) the group said it had struck a military target in northern Israel, having earlier announced several operations against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.

Israel sent ground forces into southern Lebanon during the latest war and they continue to occupy territory near the border between the two countries.

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 45-day extension of their ceasefire after another round of talks in Washington, the U.S. State Department said Friday (May 15, 2026).

It comes after two “productive” days of talks and will be followed by more negotiations June 2-3, State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. A shaky truce between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon had been due to end on Sunday (May 17, 2026).

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“We hope these discussions will advance lasting peace between the two countries, full recognition of each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and establishing genuine security along their shared border,” Mr. Pigott said on social media.