(June 2, 2026)
In a post by the Lebanese presidency on X, Aoun said Lebanon is committed to preserving peace, adding “anyone who fuels [division] provides a service to Israel”.
Aoun highlighted that Lebanon has lost more than 3,000 people during the conflict, with about one million displaced and thousands of homes destroyed.
“There is no horizon for ending this situation,” he said, adding it’s the state’s duty to protect its citizens and “there is no other option but negotiation”.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said that negotiations are „safer than war“, adding that the country has „no other choice“.
„We have seen, and continue to see, the devastation and consequences of war. Negotiations will not solve the problem overnight, but they are a process that takes time, and we have no other choice,“ Aoun told reporters.
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At least 3,433 people have been killed and 10,395 have been wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2, the Lebanese Health Ministry said in an update today.
Of that total, at least 21 were killed in the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry.
Lebanon‘s Health Ministry says the death toll from Israel‘s military campaign has climbed to 3,412, with 10,269 people wounded between March 2 and May 31.
The latest figures came as Israeli attacks continued to hit civilian infrastructure across southern Lebanon. Earlier, a strike near Hiram Hospital in the city of Tyre injured 13 members of the hospital staff, according to Lebanon‘s National News Agency, citing the Health Ministry.
The ministry said the attack caused “serious damage” to the hospital, which had already suffered damage in previous Israeli strikes.
Lebanon‘s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks killed 16 people and wounded 34 others over the past 24 hours, adding to the mounting toll from the conflict.
The ministry said the number of people killed in Lebanon since hostilities escalated on March 2 has now reached 3,371, while the total number of wounded has risen to 10,129.
The Lebanese death toll from Israeli strikes has risen to 3,324 since March 2, Lebanon‘s Ministry of Public Health said on Thursday, as Israeli strikes intensified across southern Lebanon.
Another 10,027 people have been wounded since March 2, according to the ministry.
Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon killed at least 31 people and wounded 40 others on Tuesday, as Israeli forces intensified strikes and issued dozens of displacement orders for towns and villages in the country’s south and east.
Panic spread across southern Lebanon as residents fled the escalating assault, with Israeli ground forces reportedly pushing deeper into Lebanese territory amid fears of a wider offensive.
BEIRUT, May 25, 2026 (WAFA) – The Emergency Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health announced on Monday that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on Lebanon between March 2 and May 25 has reached 3,185, in addition to 9,633 injured.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said on Sunday the death toll from Israeli attacks in Lebanon has risen to 3,151, with 9,571 people wounded since the latest escalation began on March 2.
According to figures published on Sunday, 28 people were killed and 65 injured over the previous 24 hours. The ministry also said 123 healthcare workers have been killed and 301 wounded in 151 attacks targeting ambulance crews and medical personnel.
„The Israeli enemy strike on the town of Sir al-Gharbiyeh in the Nabatieh district resulted in a massacre whose final toll is 11 dead including a child and six women, and nine wounded including four children and a woman,“ the ministry said in a statement.
“This mass murder must end,” Tlaib said in a post on X.
“The US is not a bystander in the Israeli military’s brutal invasion of Lebanon–it is an active participant,” she said.
“I will force a vote in Congress to immediately end all US participation in this illegal and immoral war on Lebanon.”
Lebanon‘s Public Health Emergency Operations Center announced that the death toll from Israeli attacks on the country since March 2 has risen to 3,111 killed and 9,432 wounded as of May 22.
Souveränität und Sicherheit sind nicht umsonst zu haben. Dafür braucht es Rückgrat, das der Iran in den vergangenen Wochen bewiesen hat und weiter beweist. Die libanesische Regierung unter Präsident Joseph Aoun und Premier Salam aber fügt sich lieber dem israelisch-US-amerikanischen Diktat – auf Kosten der libanesischen Bevölkerung.
On 8 April 2026, shortly after the announcement of a ceasefire to the 2026 Iran war and Hezbollah signalling a pause in attacks against Israel according to the ceasefire,[5] Israel launched what it described „the most strong attacks“ across Lebanon, killing at least 357 people.[3][6] The casualty count was among the highest of the 2026 Lebanon war.[6][7]
Lebanon called the attacks Black Wednesday,[8] and accused Israel of carrying out a massacre.
“In Bibi, we don’t trust,” read one banner, as protestors chanted: “No to endless wars, no to a government of death”.
“What happened immediately after the ceasefire in Iran, Israel launched one of its largest attacks in Lebanon, which in my opinion, was an attempt to try and sabotage the ceasefire with Iran,” one demonstrator told AFP.
It’s no surprise that Benjamin Netanyahu immediately started to sabotage Donald Trump’s Iran ceasefire, by launching murderous Israeli air attacks on Lebanon, which already killed more than 200 people. It’s also, sadly, no surprise that the mainstream U.S. media did not report that Netanyahu and Israel were deliberately trying to torpedo the fragile ceasefire.
The Prime Minister contacted his Lebanese counterpart by telephone and strongly condemned Israel’s aggression.
According to a spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s House, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam spoke over the phone.
Israel has conducted strikes at the entire southern part of Lebanon, the western Bekaa Valley all the way into Nabatieh, where a strike killed more than a dozen Lebanese state security personnel.
We understand that Lebanese civil defence personnel are still looking for survivors and digging through the rubble.
There have also been strikes throughout the southwestern front where we are, and controlled demolitions carried out by Israeli forces.
Lebanon‘s Directorate General of State Security said 13 of its personnel were killed following Israeli strikes on a government building in the southern city of Nabatieh.
In a statement issued by its media and public relations department, the agency said that on April 10, Israeli airstrikes targeted the Nabatieh government Serail building, which houses the regional office of State Security.
The remotely piloted aircraft, often used by the RAF, supports missions including „surveillance, search and rescue, and armed operations alongside Nato and US forces“, according to the RAF.
The drone flew over Lebanon before and after the wave of Israeli strikes on Wednesday afternoon, which came after a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US was agreed on Tuesday night.
The first thing Abdelwahab noticed was the silence after the blast.
Then came the smoke, the screams – and the realisation that the bodies he was pulling from the rubble belonged to people he knew.
It was shortly after 2pm on Wednesday when across Lebanon, Israeli warplanes had launched a heavy wave of air strikes on densely populated areas, including in Beirut, its southern suburbs, the eastern Beqaa governorate and southern villages.
The simultaneous strikes killed more than 300 people and wounded over 1,150, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
The Communist Party of Israel and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) condemned on Wednesday evening, April 8, “the heinous and horrific massacre committed by the far-right Israeli government in Lebanon, only hours after the announcement of a temporary ceasefire in the war. This is a clear sign of the crisis facing war criminals, whose aggressive policies repeatedly fail to establish what they term the New World Order. Furthermore, Netanyahu and his government understand that ending the war signifies the collapse of their legitimacy and the end of their time in power.”
“We view the ceasefire in the war with Iran as a crucial development that must be maintained, defended, and turned into a standing agreement that guarantees peace and rights for the peoples of the region, while standing firm against any Israeli attempt to thwart it. We emphasize that this war has once again exposed the failure of the policies of aggression and the imperialist bullying of the US and Israel. It has proven that the logic of force, destruction, and occupation does not create security or stability, but rather drags the entire region into further ruin and bloodshed. We reaffirm that the only path to security, stability, and a better future for all peoples of the land and the region is not the path of war and aggression, but a political path based on ending the occupation—as it is the heart of the regional conflict—and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in all territories occupied by Israel in June 1967,” they said in the common communique.
Israel and Lebanon will hold talks next week in Washington after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered direct talks, a source familiar with the situation told AFP Thursday.
The talks are expected to take place at the U.S. State Department, the source said on condition of anonymity, after Israel said that a U.S.-Iran ceasefire did not apply to Lebanon.
The Lebanese health ministry said that Wednesday‘s death toll from Israeli attacks across Lebanon has risen to 303.
Israeli strikes hit several commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning on Wednesday, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Lebanon said at least 112 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in what was one of the deadliest days in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war.
This is unprecedented really, perhaps since 1982 and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon back then. There were 100 air strikes in the span of 10 minutes, many targeting areas in Beirut that wouldn’t be traditionally seen as in any way related to Hezbollah.
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Israeli air strikes have targeted the cemetery in the Bekaa Valley village of Shmestar, killing at least 10 people and injuring four others who were attending a funeral, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports.
The agency said rescuers and medics are still operating at the scene.