In the wake of the US and Iran announcing a Memorandum of Understanding to end the conflict between the two nations that includes a ceasefire in Lebanon, Israeli ministers have said Israel isn’t bound by the agreement.

Israeli soldiers went door to door in the border village of Ain Arab, forcing residents from their homes at gunpoint as part of a systematic campaign to empty large swathes of southern Lebanon.

The highways around Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut are heavily crowded today after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered major attacks against Beirut’s southern suburb, Dahiyeh.

The IDF said that over three days of fighting, it had killed around 15 Hezbollah fighters in the operation, which, combined with earlier operations, added up to around 70 total.

Scores of people, including a number of women and children, have been killed over the course of the weekend in southern Lebanon, as Israeli strikes continue to escalate across the region, and numbers from the Lebanese Health Ministry show the overall death toll of the war continuing to spiral, despite reports continuing to present the active ceasefire in Lebanon as “holding.”

Southern Lebanon witnessed widespread displacement on Sunday following extensive Israeli airstrikes, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a military escalation against the country.

During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Christian village of Debel has spent an undue amount of time in the spotlight. In the lead-up to the ceasefire, an image emerged of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus in the village with a sledgehammer, sparking international outcry and leading to Israel jailing a pair of soldiers for the incident.

Introduced late last week, the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is “holding” in the sense that it’s still being called a ceasefire, but with Israel’s weekend introduction of a Gaza-style “Yellow Line” it seems increasingly apparent this ceasefire will neither cease fire nor stop the Israeli destruction of southern Lebanon.

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, United States President Donald Trump says.

US officials were aware that a statement from Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the US-Iran ceasefire that was issued on Tuesday included a truce in Lebanon as part of the deal, according to media reports.

Iran has halted the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz over Israel’s strikes in Lebanon, the Fars news agency reports.

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut Wednesday afternoon without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Lebanon's health ministry said dozens were killed and hundreds wounded in an early estimate.

Israel’s defense minister said in a statement this week that Israeli forces are working to implement the “Rafah and Beit Hanoun model” in southern Lebanon, sparking fears that Israel is planning to flatten entire towns in an attempt to defeat Hezbollah once and for all.

Israel said on Tuesday it would seize parts of southern Lebanon to create what it called a “defensive buffer”, while Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue striking Iran, dimming hopes of de-escalation even as Donald Trump talked up the prospects of a deal to end the conflict.

Israeli attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon may amount to war crimes, the United Nations human rights office says as the Israeli military pummels its northern neighbour as part of the wider war engulfing the Middle East.

As Israeli attacks continue to escalate, the death toll of their current war on Lebanon has been soaring, with the Lebanese Health Ministry reporting today that 394 people have been killed since Monday, including at least 83 children.

BEIRUT, LEBANON—Mustafa Arout was forced to flee his home in Mais al-Jabal, a town in southern Lebanon, before dawn on Tuesday as the Israeli military issued mass displacement orders to dozens of communities in the area and launched a wave of heavy airstrikes.

Palantir software was used by Israel in its 2024 pager attacks in Lebanon, according to a new book by Alex Karp, co-founder of the Palantir tech company.

Palantir software was used by Israel in its 2024 pager attacks in Lebanon, according to a new book by Alex Karp, co-founder of the Palantir tech company.

An Israeli drone strike attacked and destroyed a car in the southern Lebanese village of al-Mansouri, which is in the Tyre District. One person was killed in the attack, Mohammad Shuweikh, who according to the locals was the principal of the Mansouri Public School.