The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that one person was killed and at least four paramedics were injured in Israeli raids targeting the south of the country, while the Israeli army issued an urgent warning to evacuate eleven towns, some of them north of the Litani River, in an expansion of the scope of its operations despite the fragile ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah. The developments come as the party rejects direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, describing them as a “sin.”

Published on: 03/05/2026 - 08:11 Last updated: 03/05/2026 - 16:21

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The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that at least one person was killed and four paramedics were injured in Israeli raids on southern Lebanon, while Israel continues its attacks despite the ceasefire agreement in its war with Hezbollah.

The ministry said in two separate statements that a raid on Arabsalim in the Nabatieh district resulted in “one martyr and three wounded, including a girl,” while another raid on the town of Srifa in the Tire district resulted in the injury of five people, including four paramedics from Hezbollah’s “Health Authority,” after the raid occurred near one of their centers.

Violations of medical facilities

The Ministry renewed its "denunciation of these repeated targets," recalling what Article 19 of the Geneva Convention stipulates "on the necessity of verifying that medical facilities are free from any danger caused by attacks in conflict areas, while what is happening is exactly the opposite."

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Evacuation warnings affect the towns north of the Litani

On Sunday, the Israeli army issued a new “urgent warning” to evacuate villages outside the “security zone” it had established in southern Lebanon. The army spokesman in Arabic, Avichai Adraee, published a statement on the

Adraei wrote, “An urgent warning to the residents of Lebanon who are in the following towns and villages: Al-Duwair, Arabsalim, Sharqiya (Nabatieh), Jabchit, Bara’shit, Srifa, Donin, Bariqa’, Qaqa’iyyat Al-Jisr, Al-Qusiba (Nabatieh), Kfarsir (...) In order to ensure your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move away from the villages and towns for a distance of not less than 1,000 meters to open land.”

The official National News Agency reported a series of Israeli raids across southern Lebanon, targeting countries whose names were not mentioned in the evacuation notice.

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Beyond the "yellow line"

Despite the ceasefire agreement, Israel continues to carry out attacks, especially on southern Lebanon, and its forces carry out large-scale demolition and bombing operations in border towns, where it announced the establishment of a “yellow line” separating dozens of villages from the rest of Lebanese territory.

Israeli Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir warned Wednesday during his visit to forces deployed in southern Lebanon that “any threat, anywhere, against our communities or our forces, including beyond the Yellow Line and north of the Litani (thirty kilometers from the border), will be eliminated.”

According to the terms of the ceasefire agreement published by the US State Department, Israel reserves “the right to take all necessary measures to defend itself at any time against attacks” by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah describes direct negotiations as a "sin"

Two Israeli soldiers and an army contractor were killed and dozens of soldiers were injured within one week as a result of attacks, most of which occurred on marches in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah recently began using fiber-optic guided drones, which are difficult to monitor and have a range of tens of kilometers, to launch attacks on Israeli forces in Lebanon.

The party announced on Sunday that it had targeted “a gathering of Israeli enemy army vehicles and soldiers in the town of Bayada with an assault march,” and said that this came “in response to the Israeli enemy’s violation of the ceasefire and the attacks that targeted villages in southern Lebanon and resulted in martyrs and a number of wounded among civilians.”

The position of the Lebanese and Hezbollah regarding the negotiations

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun announced on Wednesday that Israel must “fully” adhere to the ceasefire with Hezbollah before direct negotiations between the two countries, under the auspices of the United States. The ambassadors of Lebanon and Israel to the United States held two meetings in Washington in recent weeks, the first of their kind in decades. The first meeting led to a ceasefire agreement, paving the way for direct negotiations under pressure from the United States. The two towns have been officially at war since 1948.

Hezbollah has strongly rejected direct talks, with its Secretary-General Naim Qassem calling them a "sin." In a speech he delivered on Sunday during an event to honor a number of Hezbollah fighters killed in the war, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said, “These negotiations, with all their results, do not concern us, and we will not implement them, and we will not allow them to pass.”

France 24/AFP

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