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2026 Lebanon war Christian anti- Hezbollah Lebanese Forces Party official Pierre Mouawad , his wife, and another woman are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Ain Saadeh , a predomin
Confirmed
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett, reporting from the site of the strike in Ain Saadeh, said the attack appeared to be an attempted assassination as Israeli forces targeted a specific apartment. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut, said Ain Saadeh “is outside Hezbollah’s influence, and those killed were apparently not part of the conflict.
Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee ordered the evacuation of residents from seven neighbourhoods in the southern suburb of Beirut, saying the army would attack “Hezbollah infrastructure”. “From what we can tell, the apartment that the Israeli forces were going after was on the third floor,” the reporter said.
An Israeli airstrike targeting Bir al-Abed, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, was reported shortly after. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported a string of attacks in the Jabal Amel region, south of the Litani River, including in the towns of Arzoun, Jouya, Hadatha, Jmeijmeh, Dbeibine and Haris.
Elie Yaacoub, head of Mercy Corps’ Lebanon Crisis Analysis Team, said the area south of the Litani river was not witnessing a military escalation but “the systematic isolation of an entire population. A deepening ground invasion launched by the Israeli military on March 16 has spurred concern as Israeli leaders last week openly said they planned to demolish scores of homes.
The Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health said the strike killed three people, including two women and injured three others. The Lebanese group on Tuesday said its fighters launched rocket barrages on the Hurfeish, Shlomi and Nahariya settlements in northern Israel.
“Tension is being heightened in those areas because people are blaming Hezbollah and its supporters for seeking shelter there,” Khodr said. An Israeli drone struck near Ghandour Hospital in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, killing one person and injuring a second, local media reported.
It said it also targeted a gathering of Israeli army vehicles and soldiers at the Fatima Gate on the Israeli-Lebanon border. “[This is] an area that was not warned about and has not been targeted before, an area where people thought that they would be safe,” Pett said.
“It sets back development by years, if not decades, and dramatically increases the cost and complexity of recovery,” he said.
What's confirmed
- Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett, reporting from the site of the strike in Ain Saadeh, said the attack appeared to be an attempted assassination as Israeli forces targeted a specific apartment.
- Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee ordered the evacuation of residents from seven neighbourhoods in the southern suburb of Beirut, saying the army would attack “Hezbollah infrastructure”.
- An Israeli airstrike targeting Bir al-Abed, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, was reported shortly after.
- Elie Yaacoub, head of Mercy Corps’ Lebanon Crisis Analysis Team, said the area south of the Litani river was not witnessing a military escalation but “the systematic isolation of an entire population.
- The Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health said the strike killed three people, including two women and injured three others.
- “Tension is being heightened in those areas because people are blaming Hezbollah and its supporters for seeking shelter there,” Khodr said.
What's still developing
- Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported a string of attacks in the Jabal Amel region, south of the Litani River, including in the towns of Arzoun, Jouya, Hadatha, Jmeijmeh, Dbeibine and Haris.
- An Israeli drone struck near Ghandour Hospital in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, killing one person and injuring a second, local media reported.
- A deepening ground invasion launched by the Israeli military on March 16 has spurred concern as Israeli leaders last week openly said they planned to demolish scores of homes .
- Elie Yaacoub, head of Mercy Corps’ Lebanon Crisis Analysis Team, said the area south of the Litani river was not witnessing a military escalation but “the systematic isolation of an entire population.
- “It sets back development by years, if not decades, and dramatically increases the cost and complexity of recovery,” he said.
- The Lebanese group on Tuesday said its fighters launched rocket barrages on the Hurfeish, Shlomi and Nahariya settlements in northern Israel.
- It said it also targeted a gathering of Israeli army vehicles and soldiers at the Fatima Gate on the Israeli-Lebanon border.
- Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee ordered the evacuation of residents from seven neighbourhoods in the southern suburb of Beirut, saying the army would attack “Hezbollah infrastructure”.