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Lebanon+0.4 SEVERITY ESCALATINGMonday, May 18, 2026 at 05:50 AM UTC

Israel launches strikes on southern Lebanon despite extending ‘ceasefire’

Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto reports from Tyre in southern Lebanon on the latest Israeli strikes in the region. At least five people have been killed in Israeli air attacks on several locations in southern and eastern Lebanon. Three paramedics at health centre among dead, while Hamas military chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad killed in Gaza strike Israel carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least six people, including three paramedics working at a health centre, just hours after its envoys had agreed with the Lebanese government to extend a ceasefire . Israel also said it had killed th

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SOURCE: Al Jazeera

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