Satellite images reveal Israeli destruction of villages in south Lebanon
Satellite imagery reveals how Israeli attacks have caused extensive damage to more than a dozen villages in southern Lebanon.
Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi explains the impact it has on civilians.
Hezbollah targets site north of Haifa
The Lebanese armed group says it attacked the Zevulon military industries base with a salvo of missiles. Earlier, Hezbollah also claimed an attack on a Merkava tank “at the gate of Metula with a guided missile”, saying it led to deaths and injuries among the crew.
Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon reaches 2,986
The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon has now climbed to 2,986 and the number of injured to 13,402 since October 2023, including 18 dead and 83 injured in the past 24 hours, the Lebanese Health Ministry says.
At least 772 of those killed were women and children, it said in a statement.
Hezbollah must be pushed back to Litani River: PM Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking from Israel’s border with Lebanon, says Hezbollah must be pushed back beyond the Litani River, with or without a ceasefire deal in place.
He also said the group must be prevented from rearming.
“With or without an agreement, the key to returning our [evacuated] residents in the north safely to their homes is to keep back Hezbollah beyond the Litani, to strike its every attempt [to] rearm, and to respond forcefully against all action against us,” Netanyahu said.
Israeli incursion into Lebanon health centre kills two medics
According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, two paramedics were killed in an Israeli raid on a health centre in al-Bazouriyeh, near Tyre, in the south of the country.
The Public Health Emergency Operations Centre – affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health – said in a statement the Israeli attack on the health centre led to the killing of two paramedics and the injury of several others.
Israel says Syrian citizen connected to Iran seized
The Israeli military says it has carried out a ground raid into Syria and seized a Syrian citizen allegedly involved in spying for Iran.
It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory. Israel has carried out air strikes in Syria multiple times over the past year, targeting members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and officials from Iran, the close ally of both Hezbollah and Syria. But it has not previously made any ground forays into Syria public.
The Israeli military said the seizure was part of a special operation “that took place in recent months,” though it did not say exactly when it occurred.
The disclosure of the raid comes as Israel has waged an escalated campaign of bombardment in Lebanon for the past six weeks, as well as a ground invasion along the countries’ shared border, vowing to cripple Hezbollah.
On Saturday, an Israeli military official said naval forces carried out a raid in a northern Lebanese town, seizing a man they called a senior Hezbollah operative.
