At least eight people were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting southern Lebanon, violating a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that was recently extended through early July, according to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) on June 2.
Israeli fighter jets bombed the village of Doueir on June 2, killing five people and wounding two others, while leveling several homes, NNA reported. In a separate attack, two people were killed near a hospital in the village of Tibnin. A motorcyclist was also killed in a drone strike on the village of Burj Shemali in the Tyre district. The Red Cross said it recovered the body of one person on the outskirts of the town of Shebaa in Nabatieh province.
The latest wave of airstrikes came just hours after at least 16 people, including three women and three children, were killed in Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon on June 1, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. On the same day, the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it clashed with Israeli forces as they attempted to advance into the center of the village of Haddatha late at night, as well as in the town of Biyyada and the municipality of Rashaf.
Israeli attacks also expanded to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. In recent weeks, the Israeli military has targeted Shia Muslim villages in the Bekaa Valley — an area where Hezbollah enjoys support, according to Al Jazeera correspondent Zeina Khodr. These villages lie along the route connecting southern frontline villages to the eastern part of the country.
Yousef Hasan, a displaced resident from the town of Yuhmor, described Israel as "an expansionist state that kills women and children." "They don't believe in borders. For them, the border is where Israeli soldiers can reach. It is a nation that seizes others' land," he told Al Jazeera.
Since March 2, Israel has killed 3,073 people and wounded 9,362 others in Lebanon, while displacing more than 1.6 million people — roughly one-fifth of the country's population — according to Lebanese authorities. Israeli forces have also destroyed entire villages in southern Lebanon, drawing comparisons to the devastation seen in Israel's war in Gaza.
