{"id":124847,"date":"2026-04-26T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=124847"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:22:11","slug":"six-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/124847\/","title":{"rendered":"Six killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT(National Times)- Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said Israeli strikes on Saturday in the country\u2019s south killed six people, despite a ceasefire that was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1994581\">extended<\/a>\u00a0this week in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo Israeli enemy strikes, on a truck and a motorbike, in the town of Yohmor al-Shaqeef in the Nabatieh district killed four people,\u201d a ministry statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It later reported that an \u201cIsraeli enemy airstrike on the town of Safad al-Battikh, in the Bint Jbeil district, resulted in two fatalities and 17 injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel\u2019s military said it \u201celiminated\u201d three Hezbollah operatives on Saturday who were driving \u201ca vehicle loaded with weapons\u201d, as well as another one riding a motorcycle, and two more armed members of the group elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also said it identified two projectiles launched from Lebanon, decrying \u201ca blatant violation of the ceasefire understandings\u201d by Hezbollah, and later intercepted another \u201csuspicious aerial target\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah, meanwhile, said it targeted an Israeli army vehicle in south Lebanon in retaliation for the attack on Yohmor al-Shaqeef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel says it reserves the right to respond militarily to imminent threats under the terms of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US President Donald Trump had announced on Thursday that a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon that began on April 17 had been extended for three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-run&nbsp;<em>National News Agency<\/em>&nbsp;(NNA) reported Israeli artillery shelling on several south Lebanon locations on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also reported a \u201cviolent explosion\u201d in Khiam, a strategic town along the east of Lebanon\u2019s border with Israel where the agency has previously said the Israeli army has been \u201csystematically\u201d destroying houses and other buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT(National Times)- Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said Israeli strikes on Saturday in the country\u2019s south killed six people, despite a ceasefire that was\u00a0extended\u00a0this week in the war between Israel and Hezbollah. \u201cTwo Israeli enemy strikes, on a truck and a motorbike, in the town of Yohmor al-Shaqeef in the Nabatieh district killed four people,\u201d a ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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