Intensive Israeli air strikes kill one, injure seven in southern Lebanon

Lebanese president condemns Israeli onslaught connected Msayleh arsenic a ‘blatant aggression’ against civilian infrastructure.

Israeli aerial attacks connected a confederate Lebanese colony person killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 7 others, temporarily severing a cardinal way connecting Beirut to the country’s south, successful the latest near-daily usurpation by Israel of the November 2024 ceasefire it signed with Hezbollah.

The strikes deed Msayleh colony successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday morning, targeting a tract that sold dense machinery and destroying galore vehicles.

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A Syrian nationalist was killed and 7 others were wounded erstwhile a passing rootlike motortruck was caught successful the attack, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said.

Separately, Israeli drones were reported flying implicit the capital, Beirut, and confederate suburbs since aboriginal connected Saturday, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

A antheral walks astatine a tract that sold dense machinery, wherever a ample fig of vehicles were destroyed successful Israeli aerial strikes, successful the confederate colony of Msayleh, Lebanon, connected Saturday, October 11, 2025 [Mohammed Zaatari/AP]

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun condemned the attack, describing it arsenic an battle connected civilian infrastructure. “Once again, confederate Lebanon is nether occurrence from a blatant Israeli aggression against civilian facilities, without immoderate justification oregon pretext,” helium said, adding that the onslaught was peculiarly alarming fixed it came aft the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

Israel’s subject said the onslaught targeted instrumentality intended to rebuild infrastructure for Hezbollah. The Israeli subject has claimed that specified operations are indispensable to forestall Hezbollah from restoring its subject capabilities.

The United Nations quality rights chief, Volker Turk, said astatine the commencement of October that Israeli strikes had killed 103 verified civilians successful Lebanon since the ceasefire took effect.

Israeli forces stay stationed astatine respective positions wrong Lebanese territory.

The incidental marks the latest successful an astir regular signifier of Israeli strikes connected Lebanese territory since the United States brokered a ceasefire. Days earlier, Israeli drone strikes killed 2 men it claimed were Hezbollah operatives.

Lebanese authorities said connected Friday they had foiled an Israeli crippled to transportation retired bombings and assassinations astatine a commemoration for precocious erstwhile Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel, arresting respective suspects.

Hezbollah has rejected mounting unit to disarm. Speaking astatine the tomb of Hassan Nasrallah, existent secretary-general Naim Qassem told thousands of supporters that Hezbollah would ne'er relinquish its weapons.

US peculiar envoy Tom Barrack told Al Jazeera past period that convincing Hezbollah to disarm “is the occupation of the Lebanese government”, though helium acknowledged the group’s legitimacy arsenic a governmental enactment complicates the issue.

The Lebanese government, nether aggravated US and Israeli pressure, tasked the service successful aboriginal September with preparing a program to disarm the group.

The archetypal warfare killed astatine slightest 4,000 radical successful Lebanon and caused an estimated $11bn successful damage. In Israel, 127 radical died, including 80 soldiers. Fighting erupted erstwhile Hezbollah began launching rockets into bluish Israel connected October 8, 2023, 1 time aft a Hamas-led battle connected confederate Israel triggered the warfare successful Gaza.

The continuing strikes successful Lebanon travel arsenic a abstracted ceasefire successful Gaza has allowed thousands of Palestinians to instrumentality to destroyed homes, portion the UN outlined plans to present captious humanitarian assistance crossed the devastated territory.