Israeli strikes on south Lebanon kill 12: medical source

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People tally  successful  beforehand   of burned cars that were attacked successful  an Israeli airstrike successful  the confederate  larboard  metropolis  of Sidon, Lebanon, connected  June 10, 2026.

People tally successful beforehand of burned cars that were attacked successful an Israeli airstrike successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Sidon, Lebanon, connected June 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP

Israeli strikes connected confederate Lebanon killed astatine slightest 12 radical connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026), a Lebanese aesculapian root said, arsenic Israel carried retired strikes crossed the southbound including the coastal metropolis of Sidon.

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Earlier, Israeli forces seized a municipal councillor and a idiosyncratic from the borderline municipality of Kfarshuba, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency, portion Israel said it "apprehended" 2 radical who approached its soldiers.

A ceasefire successful Lebanon, meant to person gone into unit successful April, was ne'er observed, and a caller conditional truce announced aft Lebanese-Israeli talks successful Washington past week was rejected by militant radical Hezbollah, and some sides person continued to commercialized fire.

The statement did not notation a halt to Israeli attacks.

"The fig of martyrs from the Israeli airstrikes successful the municipality of Tayr Dibba is eight, and successful Deir Qanun al-Nahr it is four," the root said, speaking connected information of anonymity.

The NNA had reported astatine slightest 4 Israeli strikes connected Tayr Dibba and 2 connected Deir Qanun al-Nahr. It besides reported an Israeli drone onslaught connected a conveyance successful Sidon, a metropolis comparatively spared from large Israeli attacks and which hosts a ample fig of displaced people.

An AFP correspondent heard an detonation successful the country earlier seeing a car burning arsenic rescuers and firefighters headed to the scene. The analogous saw rescuers propulsion 2 radical from the targeted vehicle.

Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the West Asia warfare connected March 2 successful enactment of Iran. Lebanese authorities accidental Israeli attacks since March person killed astir 3,700 radical and displaced much than 1 cardinal others.

Neither broadside has respected a ceasefire archetypal announced successful mid-April. Iran insists that Lebanon indispensable beryllium portion of immoderate woody to extremity the wider West Asia war, whose prospects were questioned aft Tehran launched attacks connected U.S. bases successful Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait successful effect to American strikes connected its territory.

Two men seized

The NNA said connected Wednesday (June 10) greeting that "an Israeli patrol took distant Kfarshuba municipal assembly subordinate Mohammad Hassan al-Hajj and idiosyncratic Ahmad Salah Diab, taking them to an chartless location".

"The 2 men were moving to pump h2o to the municipality of Kfarshuba erstwhile the Israeli patrol stopped them and took them away," it added.

The Israeli subject said successful a connection to AFP successful Jerusalem that it "identified 2 suspected individuals who approached the country successful which [Israeli] soldiers are operating successful confederate Lebanon".

"The soldiers apprehended the suspected individuals, who were transferred to Israeli territory for further questioning."

Sunni-majority Kfarshuba is among a fewer confederate villages, astir of them Christian, whose residents chose to enactment passim the Israel-Hezbollah warfare contempt Israeli orders to evacuate.

On Tuesday (June 10), the relation of Christian borderline villages successful confederate Lebanon issued a connection urging the Lebanese authorities to "immediately unfastened harmless humanitarian and aesculapian corridors to guarantee the entree of citizens, aid, and aesculapian and alleviation teams to the affected and isolated villages".

They pointed to "a unsafe diminution successful wellness services owed to the disruption oregon closure of a fig of wellness centres and clinics," with astir roads starring to their villages present "cut disconnected oregon highly dangerous".

The incidental comes a time aft Israeli strikes killed astatine slightest 11 radical successful and astir the confederate metropolis of Tyre, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The Israeli subject besides issued evacuation warnings for 3 confederate Lebanese towns connected Wednesday (June 10). The NNA also reported overnight strikes connected Nabatieh, 1 of the south's largest cities that is present mostly deserted.

The metropolis is adjacent to areas the Israeli subject precocious pushed into, including the medieval-era Beaufort castle, which overlooks the district. Hezbollah meantime said it targeted Israeli troops successful the area.

Published - June 10, 2026 10:50 p.m. IST

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