Eight civilians killed in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon as ceasefire violations mount

The Lebanese health ministry has reported eight fatalities from the latest Israeli strikes against multiple locations south of Lebanon, marking a fresh flagrant violation of the ceasefire brokered just weeks earlier.

The Israeli military unleashed a wave of airstrikes across the region on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding 15 others, according to Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health.

The ministry's Emergency Operations Center confirmed the toll from several Israeli terror attacks targeting residential areas and towns in southern Lebanon, in yet another blatant breach of the fragile US-brokered ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump on April 16.

Among the deadly assaults was an airstrike on the town of Tayr Falsay, which claimed at least three lives and injured eight others, three of them children.

Additional Israeli strikes pounded the Tyre district town of Tyre Debba, killing two civilians, including a child, and wounding three others.

Three more people were killed in a separate Israeli attack against the town of Jouaiya in Tayr.

According to Lebanese authorities, nearly 3,000 people have been killed and more than 9,000 others wounded in Lebanon since the Israeli regime launched its military campaign following Hezbollah's March 2 operation.

Israel is occupying a belt of southern Lebanon extending five to ten kilometres inland. The Israeli military has warned the residents of southern Lebanon not to cross into the area.

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