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Shafaq News- Beirut
Israeli strikes killed and wounded at least
20 people across southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese media and official
figures indicated, as border areas were left “blurred into ash” amid widespread
destruction.
In the Tyre district, Lebanese media
reported that a strike on al-Maaliya killed three workers —two Syrians and one
Egyptian. Three people were wounded in Safad al-Battikh, while two others were
injured when an Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle in Jouaiya. In Srifa, five
people were injured, among them four paramedics, wounded when a strike landed
near their medical center.
Strikes also hit the Nabatieh and Bent
Jbeil districts, where the Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed that an attack on
Arabsalim killed one person and wounded three others, including a child. In
Haris, a motorcycle driver was killed in a separate strike.
The ministry condemned the repeated attacks
and renewed its call to protect medical facilities, citing the Geneva
Conventions, which require safeguarding such sites during armed conflict.
Israeli operations extended beyond
airstrikes, with local media reporting that forces rigged and detonated several
homes in the town of Shamaa, in Tyre’s western sector. An analysis by The New
York Times, based on satellite imagery and verified footage, described
widespread destruction across more than a dozen border towns and villages,
including damage to government buildings and civilian infrastructure such as
schools, hospitals, and mosques, noting that “villages are now blurred into
ash, with the white of rubble marking town after town.”
According to Lebanese authorities, more
than 8,500 Israeli violations —including excavation and bulldozing operations,
shelling, and the use of phosphorus munitions were recorded since March 2. The
Lebanese Health Ministry has recorded 2,679 deaths and 8,229 injuries
nationwide.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced it targeted
Israeli soldiers and vehicles near al-Salaa hill in al-Qantara with rockets,
after striking another group in al-Bayada with an attack drone, claiming a
“confirmed hit,” as retaliation for Israeli violations and deadly attacks on
southern villages.
The Israeli army reported 735 injuries
among its officers and soldiers since early March, including 44 in critical
condition and 100 moderately injured, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said a “special project” to counter drone threats is underway, noting
that progress will take time.
ישראל תהיה חזקה מאי פעם pic.twitter.com/jlJXW5wmMy
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) May 3, 2026
The army also reported launching an
interceptor toward a “suspicious aerial target,” with the outcome under review,
and detecting several rockets and explosive drones fired by Hezbollah that
allegedly fell near Israeli troop positions without causing casualties. Air
raid alerts in the Avvivim area were attributed to interceptor activity
targeting decoy objects.
לפני זמן קצר, שוגר מיירט לעבר מטרה אווירית חשודה שזוהתה במרחב בו פועלים כוחות צה”ל בדרום לבנון. תוצאות היירוט בבדיקה.בנוסף, באירועים נוספים היום, זוהו מספר שיגורים ורחפני נפץ שנורו על ידי ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה ונפלו בסמוך למרחב בו פועלים כוחות צה”ל בדרום לבנון, ללא נפגעים
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) May 3, 2026
Israel has also established a “buffer zone”
several miles deep inside southern Lebanon, which it says will remain until the
Hezbollah threat is contained.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz
described the military approach as modeled on operations in Gaza, involving
large-scale destruction.
