An apartment targeted by an Israeli strike in Ain Saadeh, Mount Lebanon, on April 6, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
BEIRUT — Israel carried out a series of overnight strikes from Sunday to Monday on localities in southern Lebanon, including on residential buildings and homes, killing several people, according to reports from our correspondent in the region.
Around midnight, an Israeli strike targeted a house in Arzoun (Sour). Rescue teams managed to retrieve several people wounded from beneath the rubble.
Israel also targeted Nabatieh with airstrikes, destroying several buildings and a pharmacy across from the Sabbah High School, as well as areas in Deir Zahrani and Nabatieh Fawqa.
Israel targeted homes in Mansouri and Burj Rahal (Sour) with airstrikes. Paramedics from al-Rissala Scouts, affiliated with the Amal Movement, pulled the body of one person killed from under the rubble in Burj Rahal and are searching for another person still missing. Israeli airstrikes additionally targeted homes in Jibsheet and Harouf (Nabatieh), killing three people, and other homes in Kfar Hata and Jwayya (Sour).
According to our correspondent, Israeli airstrikes during the day on Sunday targeted 44 locations in the South. Israel targeted three villages with drone strikes and 15 others with heavy artillery fire. For its part, Hezbollah claimed to have carried out 31 attacks on Israel. Overnight, Hezbollah successively shelled Hurfeish, Liman, Shlomi, and Nahariya in northern Galilee.
On Monday morning, an Israeli drone fired three times on the locality of Kfar Roummane, near Nabatieh, killing four civilians in a car. Two people were also killed in a strike on Nabatieh Fawqa, near Ghandour Hospital, and two others were wounded in a strike on a vehicle in Mayfadoun (Nabatieh).
Israeli attack on Ain Saadeh
In Ain Saadeh, on a hilltop overlooking Beirut, uncertainty still reigns the day after the unprecedented strike on a residential building which killed a Lebanese Forces official and his wife. According to our journalists, some residents say that the the third-floor apartment targeted was unoccupied. "When I heard the explosion, I didn't think it was near my home. Then I heard screams and realized they had targeted next door. But there was no one," Aida told our onsite journalist Lyana Alameddine.
On Monday morning, the Israeli army claimed in a message on X that it had "attacked a [Hezbollah] target east of Beirut yesterday," adding that "reports about injuries among non-combatant Lebanese are being verified. The incident is under review."
