37 Martyrs in Continued Israeli Attacks on Southern, Eastern Lebanon
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a fresh wave of attacks across Southern Lebanon and the Western Bekaa on Saturday morning, killing at least 37 people and extending a pattern of aggression that has persisted despite an alleged ceasefire in place since April 17, 2026.
In the Nabatieh area alone, at least 25 people were martyred, and another 35 were injured in an initial toll, as reported by the Civil Defense Operations Room of the Islamic Health Authority's Jabal Amel II region. Rescue and ambulance teams are still clearing rubble and searching for missing people. Among those martyred in the Nabatieh area is a Lebanese Army soldier killed in an Israeli drone strike in Kfar Rumman, Al-Mayadeen reported.Meanwhile, an Israeli attack on a residential building in the town of Qennarit in Sidan District killed 7 people and injured 13 others, among them 5 children and 5 women, per the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.In the Western Bekaa, Al-Mayadeen's correspondent reported that four people were killed in an Israeli attack on the town of Sohmor, in addition to a person killed earlier in a separate drone attack that targeted a motorcycle in the same town, bringing the death toll in Sohmor to five.Saturday's strikes followed a sharp escalation on Friday, when the IOF expanded its attacks to include several Southern villages, the outskirts and Northern entrance of Baalbek, and the Litani Riverbed near the town of Zellaya in the Western Bekaa, attacks that resulted in massacres of civilians.
The bombardment continued even as Reuters reported that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah had taken effect at 4 p.m. that day. Within moments of the so-called ceasefire taking hold, Israeli occupation warplanes launched more than 16 attacks on areas across the South, according to Al-Mayadeen's correspondent.The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health confirmed that the intensified aggression carried out from midnight through Friday afternoon martyred 47 people and injured 97 others, an updated toll showed. The ministry put the cumulative toll of Israeli attacks between March 2 and June 19 at 3,980 martyred and 12,001 injured.In a speech delivered Friday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem declared that the Resistance will not surrender, stating that the death the enemy threatens them with is not something they dread.He asserted that victory is defined by prevailing steadfastness, adding that losses, no matter how massive, are better than capitulation.Sheikh Qassem explained that the campaign waged against Lebanon today aims to end the Resistance and eliminate its existence, warning that Lebanon is passing through the most dangerous phase in its history.He affirmed that the Resistance has developed appropriate arms capabilities and drones through the ingenuity of its fighters, vowing that the Israelis will be forced out of every last inch of Lebanese land.
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