If Israel tries to maintain lasting military presence inside south Lebanon, as it did after November 2024, I'm not sure it will be uncontested this time.

In retrospect, absence of Hizbullah attacks 2024-26 looks like a strategic choice, as Hizb was preparing for this conflict.

98% of documented white phosphorus attacks in south Lebanon — tracked at whitephosphorus.info — fall within the IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone." The zone Israel now claims as a military buffer is the same territory it systematically struck with that munition.

Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement.
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Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006.

"I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".

Israel detonating what’s left of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.

They were already destroyed. Israel is obliterating everything.

Day 2 of the “ceasefire” between Lebanon and the genocidal nation

This is what’s left of the historic town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon after Israel passed through it

Der Tankrabatt kostet für 2 Mon. 1,6 Mrd. €. Dafür, dass sich Öl-Konzerne bereichern, SUV-Fahrer besonders entlastet & fossile Kriege finanziert werden.

Das Deutschlandticket kostet für 12 Mon. 1,5 Mrd.€. Dafür, dass 14 Mio. Menschen entlastet, Stau reduziert & fossile Unabhängigkeit gestärkt wird.

In the past day, Israel claimed its targets in the Beirut massacre were valuable Hezbollah cadres. No names I have seen confirm this. More innocent civilians than anything else. This is an atrocity designed to derail the Iran-IS agreement, detach Lebanon’s ceasefire as a standalone one

#Lebanon: Lebanese Ministry of Health: Update Death toll from Wednesday’s Israeli attacks rises to 357, with 1,223 injured

1,953 killed and 6,303 injured since the start of the war in March.

#Lebanon Ministry of Health: 303 killed and 1,150 injured in yesterday’s attack by Israel.

Among them 110 children, women and elderly. There are still people under the rubble.

Hermel district 9 killed and 6 injured 08 04 26 LB Beirut 92 killed and 742 injured Dahiyeh 61 killed and 200 injured Baalbak district 18 killed and 28 injured Saida district 12 killed and 56 injured Aley district 17 killed and 6 injured Nabatieh district 28 killed and 59 injured Tyre district 17 killed and 68 injured Civil Defense 254 KILLED IN ATTACKS TODAY

This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes

From Getty: BEIRUT, LEBANON - APRIL 08: A firefighter walks through destroyed cars as a building burns after an Israeli airstrike on April 08, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon. Israel has stepped-up its attacks on Lebanon following President Donald Trump's announcement of a two-week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, conditional on shipping being allowed to resume through the Strait of Hormuz. Israel says it will observe the ceasefire with Iran but insists Lebanon was not included in the deal, and has since launched the "largest coordinated strike" on Hezbollah targets since the cross-border war began on March 2. Iran and Pakistan - which has been coordinating peace talks - have said that the ceasefire would include Lebanon, while the US has yet to weigh-in. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Photos coming out of Beirut today look like the opposite of a ceasefire

When I spoke to one of my displaced cousins in Beirut today, he said: “Now that Israel isn’t sending its warplanes to bomb Iran, they have a lot of extra time to bomb us”

Die völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffe auf den #Libanon müssen umgehend gestoppt werden. Die Bevölkerung ist in Angst, die Krankenhäuser sind überfüllt, Millionen wurden intern vertrieben. In Beirut herrscht Chaos. 2/3

In diesen Stunden sind die medico-Kolleg:innen @starosta.bsky.social, Imad Mustafa und Rachide Tennin und in #Beirut und stehen unseren Partner:innen bei. Wir verurteilen die Angriffe auf den #Libanon, bei denen über hundert Menschen getötet und verletzt wurden, aufs Schärfste! 1/3

Israel has used 50 warplanes to bomb Lebanon in the past few hours alone. This figure comes from the IDF itself

Baby supplies and canned food among the ruins left behind by Israeli airstrikes in Beirut

Israel wants you all to believe this is Hezbollah

Lebanese Civil Defense: 254 killed and more than 1,129 wounded in today's Israeli airstrikes

More attacks on Beirut just now.

White House saying Lebanon not included in ceasefire. Iran saying attacks must stop or they will not take part in discussions.

The death toll in Lebanon is now at 80 with over 200 injured at least according to the Lebanese Red Cross

الصليب الأحمر اللبناني: 80 شهيدًا و200 مصاب جراء الغارات الإسرائيلية وسط استمرار عمليات الإنقاذ في مواقع القصف

Megaphone.news did a quick report on the Israeli strikes on Lebanon so far.

These are just some of them.

#Israel named the mass attacks on #Lebanon on a Wednesday afternoon at crowded areas targeting literally everything in Beirut and beyond “Eternal Darkness” - proudly announcing death and destruction.

They now threat to attack further, manipulating the Iran-ceasefire which was bound to Lebanon.

Lebanese Red Cross chief warning of many dead and wounded, asking citizens to clear roads for ambulances. Hospitals are appealing for blood, all types. Strikes hit crowded residential areas in #Beirut. #lebanon

Screenshot of a twitter quote post: Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب @chehayebk Israeli military says it targeted what it said was “over 100 Hezbollah command and control centers and military sites” in 10 minutes in #Beirut, Beqaa, and southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has not launched any attacks on Israel today, insists Lebanon is part of the US-Iran deal. [Quote] Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب @chehayebk · 14m Panic across Beirut. At least 10 Israeli airstrikes rocked Lebanon, including several parts of central Beirut. Busy residential and commercial areas with no warning.

Pakistan: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire
Iran: Lebanon is part of the ceaefire
US: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire
Lebanon: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire
Israel: We bombed Lebanon 100 times in 10 minutes

@syriadirect.bsky.social reports that they can hear and feel the bombing of Beirut in Damascus.

“The sounds of explosions in Damascus and Homs deserted by Israeli strikes on locations in Lebanon.”

These attacks happened in multiple civilian areas around the most crowded places on a regular afternoon, without prior warnings or evacuation orders. This is pure terror.

Israel attacked Lebanon with 100 missiles in 10min in several areas, including multiple areas in Basta, Badaro, Ain Mreisseh, Bachoura, Dahyieh, Mazraa, Verdun - it’s happening literally all over the city amidst hope for a ceasefire.

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