BEIRUT: Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes killed 10 people on Friday, including six rescuers and a child, as Israel continued to bomb the country’s south despite a ceasefire.
In a statement, the Lebanese ministry said “six people were martyred”, including two rescuers from a scouts association and a Syrian girl in a strike on Deir Qanun al Nahr village near Tyre.
The association is linked with the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement.
An earlier strike on the southern town of Hanaway killed four rescuers, the ministry said.
Separately, the Israeli military said it had killed two people close to the border.
“Surveillance identified two armed individuals moving in a suspicious manner hundreds of metres from Israeli territory, in southern Lebanon,” it said in a Telegram post.
“Following their identification and continuous monitoring by Israeli forces, the armed individuals were struck and eliminated in an aerial strike,” the post said.
On Friday evening, the Israeli military issued a new evacuation warning for the Lebanese village of Burj Rahal, near Tyre, via its Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee.
He said the military was acting against Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, said it had targeted Israeli troops and positions inside Lebanon and in northern Israel near the border.
‘Rage, might and tyranny’
“We are fighting our enemy on the battlefield, and it has grown frustrated by the strength and heroism of our fighters... so it resorts to unleashing the hell of its rage, might and tyranny to destroy your villages and displace you,” the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, said in a message to supporters shared on Friday.
He also repeated the group’s denunciation of direct talks between Israel and Lebanon.
It came after the United States announced sanctions against nine Hezbollah-linked individuals it accused of “obstructing the peace process in Lebanon”.
These included two Lebanese military officers accused of sharing information with the group.
Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2026