Israeli strikes kill 12 in southern Lebanon village — SkimNews
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- Israeli air strikes on Kfar Roummane in Nabatieh district killed at least 12 people, including 2 children and 4 women in a destroyed three-storey residential building, with a second strike on a vehicle killing a paramedic.
- The IDF said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure and "several terrorists" transferring weapons in retaliation for two explosive drones aimed at troops in the Ali al-Taher ridge area, and is reviewing claims that uninvolved civilians were harmed.
- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called the overnight strikes a "dangerous escalation" jeopardizing the June US-brokered ceasefire and urged the international community to pressure Israel to halt the attacks.
- Hezbollah has rejected the ceasefire framework's provisions linking the group's disarmament to Israel's withdrawal, with MP Ali Ammar declaring "the language of resistance is the only language that is effective against the Israeli enemy."
- Medical personnel casualties included a paramedic from the Islamic Health Association, linked to Hezbollah, and a member of the Risala Scout Association, affiliated with the Shia Amal movement — strikes Lebanon's health ministry called "irrefutable evidence of grave violations of international humanitarian law."
- At least 27 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon over the past three days, per Lebanon's health ministry, which puts the overall conflict toll at 4,362 Lebanese dead since Lebanon entered the war on 2 March.
Why it matters: The June ceasefire was supposed to halt the Israel-Hezbollah front, but Israeli strikes resumed amid Hezbollah's refusal to disarm and the IDF's open-ended review of civilian-harm claims — with 4,362 Lebanese dead since March, including medical workers from rival Shia-linked emergency services, the framework's collapse now carries a concrete human cost rather than a theoretical one.
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