Fresh Israeli strikes reported across southern Lebanon despite ceasefire

Fresh Israeli strikes reported across southern Lebanon despite ceasefire Israeli forces carried out a series of attacks across southern Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA), despite Iranian statements that the agreement between Washington and Tehran would include an immediate halt to military operations in Lebanon. The agency reported two Israeli strikes on the town of Khiam and a drone strike targeting a vehicle in Kfar Tebnit, where injuries were reported. NNA said Israeli artillery also shelled Kfar Tebnit and Nabatieh al-Fawqa. The agency also reported that Israeli forces detonated a remotely controlled, booby-trapped M113 armoured vehicle on the Haris-Tibnin road leading towards the southern city of Tyre. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Donald Trump that Israel does not consider itself bound by provisions relating to Lebanon contained in the agreement between Washington and Tehran, according to a report by Yedioth Ahronoth citing Israeli sources.  Man stands in front of a destroyed building in central Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, 15 June 2026 (Abbas Fakih/AFP)