Multiple Israeli attacks against southern Lebanon have left at least 20 people dead and a number of others wounded over the weekend. The deadliest incidents were in Tyre District and Nabatieh District.
11 were killed and 9 wounded in Nabatieh’s Sir al-Gharbiyeh. The 11 killed included six women and one child, and the wounded included at least four children and another woman. The attack targeted a residential building in the town.
Overnight, an additional four people were killed in Israeli strikes on Deir Qanoun. A house was destroyed in those strikes. Five others were killed in an attack on an orchard in Tyre District.
A boy inspects the damage at the site of an overnight Israeli strike in the southern city of Tyre, Lebanon, May 23, 2026. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
Multiple new villages were ordered evacuated further to the east, in the Bekaa Valley. Israeli officials made clear they oppose the idea of the ceasefire in general, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would retain freedom to attack Lebanon under any potential deal on the conflict.
Israel reported one soldier was killed in northern Israel in a drone strike on Friday evening. The details are still not entirely clear, but the IDF reported he died during “operational activity” in the north of the country.
This brings the number of Israeli troops killed in the invasion of Lebanon to 22 overall. Meanwhile, over 3,100 Lebanese have been reported killed in the conflict and nearly 10,000 wounded. The IDF maintains that the slain are overwhelmingly Hezbollah, though the evidence suggests it includes a large number of women, children, and health care workers.
