Israel continued its attacks on southern Lebanon after President Trump announced he’d received assurances from both Israel and Hezbollah aimed to reduce fighting in the country. At least eight were killed in Israeli strikes since that announcement, including two children.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on Beirut on Monday, and those attacks were apparently postponed after the Trump phone call, but Defense Minister Israel Katz says that not only will attacks on the south continue, Israel is already assessing the possibility of expanding the attacks.
Israeli officials presented this as something of an agreement whereby Israel would hold off on attacks on the capital city of Beirut in return for Hezbollah ending their resistance to Israel’s invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon, which is going to continue. The city of Tyre seems to be a focus of those strikes.
People inspect the damage in the aftermath of an Israeli strike that hit near a hospital on Monday, in Tyre, Lebanon, June 2, 2026. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
As the attacks on the south continued apace, Israel attacked and badly damaged the Jabal Amel Hospital in the coastal city of Tyre. The strikes on the hospital killed 4 people and wounded 127 others. The IDF claimed that they weren’t directly attacking the hospital as such, but rather were attacking “terror infrastructure” and the hospital happened to be in the way during the attacks.
The IDF statement insisted they are “solely” attacking Hezbollah, and that therefore when they hit major civilian targets like the hospital, it’s entirely the fault of Hezbollah for being in the area. They added that the attacks would continue to “guarantee the security” of Israeli citizens.
Despite the IDF position that they’re not deliberately targeting hospitals, the number of hospitals they’ve hit in this war is substantial. Indeed, the attack on Jabal Amel Hospital on Monday wasn’t even the only hospital in Tyre itself that Israel attacked in the past week, with Hiram Hospital one of several hit over the weekend.
Among the thousands of people killed so far in Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon, more than 200 medical workers have been killed, many of them paramedics directly attacked by the IDF, with ambulances being a common target, even more than hospitals.
