Two Israeli soldiers were wounded overnight in fighting with a Hezbollah member near Beaufort Castle. The soldiers were taken to the hospital, and the Hezbollah attacker was killed. Israel then attacked the residential area of Kfar Roumine, also in southern Lebanon.
The resulting strikes killed at least 12 people and by various reports wounded over a dozen others. The slain included two children, one of them an infant. A subsequent strike targeted a vehicle and killed a paramedic in the same village. A number of women and children were also wounded in the course of the strikes.
Further attacks were reported around Nabatieh and elsewhere around southern Lebanon, wounding multiple other people, including an al-Manar TV journalist. The IDF also claimed “several Hezbollah terrorists” were killed in Nabatieh. The escalation has continued over the past several days, with as many as 30 killed over the course of the extended weekend.
Mustafa Farhat, an eight-year-old Lebanese boy, lies on a hospital bed as his relative Mona Farhat tends to him while he receives treatment at Najdeh Hospital in Nabatieh, after he was injured in Israeli strikes on Kfar Roumine in southern Lebanon, September 6, 2026. REUTERS/Ali Hankir
This attack was presented by IDF officials as retaliation against “Hezbollah infrastructure” for the Beaufort attack. They insisted that such attacks would continue despite them “remaining committed to the ceasefire agreement.”
Israel also issued a new evacuation order against Deir al-Zahrani, and strikes were reported in and around that relatively northern town within southern Lebanon. Earlier this weekend Israel claimed to have completed their total control over Ali al-Taher Ridge, and this new evacuation order and the subsequent strikes may suggest that’s going to be the next target of their ongoing offensive.
Starting with the first agreements in June, the rate at which the death toll in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was rising slowed noticeably, though attacks never fully stopped. This weekend shows them scaling back up substantially once again, and once again the toll is overwhelmingly civilian in nature.
