Israeli forces continued to carry out drone strikes across southern Lebanon again this weekend, along with reported artillery strikes against towns around the Tyre District. At least one person was reported killed in incidents, and several others wounded.
The one killed person was on a motorcycle near Kfar Roumine, in the Nabatieh District, when he was struck by a drone. Another drone hit a pickup truck transporting garbage around Kfar Dajjal, also around that same district, wounding two people.
Other incidents were reported in al-Mansouri, in Tyre District, wounding as many as four, though details are still emerging on that matter. Israeli forces also carried out demolition operations in villages near the border, including Khiam in the Marjayoun District.
Rubble lies around damaged building at the site of an Israeli strike in Tyre, Lebanon, May 28, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
Mass demolition in the southernmost parts of Lebanon is an ongoing problem, with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz quoted as saying the country was “applying the Rafah Model” on Lebanon, and that southern Lebanon would ultimately turn into Gaza, citing the mass level of destruction inflicted on the Gaza Strip in recent years.
Though Israel has at times presented their invasion and occupation of Lebanon as entirely focused on fighting Hezbollah and defending northern Israel, Katz has repeatedly pressed the idea of destroying civilian sites in the south, declaring a few weeks ago that the Shi’ite villages in Lebanon must “disappear.”
Katz had similarly said a substantial number of displaced Lebanese civilians would not be allowed to return to their homes, even as the Israeli government rejects accusations of forced population transfers, illegal under international law, on the grounds that technically the civilians weren’t prevented from returning home.
