Israeli strike kills three Lebanese soldiers after ceasefire deal

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Jun 06, 2026 · 2564 words · By FRANCE

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Israeli strike kills three Lebanese soldiers after ceasefire deal An Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon killed three soldiers, Beirut's military said Saturday, days after the two sides reached a new ceasefire deal during talks in the US.

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Why it matters

The strike on a vehicle on a road linking Nabatiyeh with Marjayoun killed a brigadier general, a captain and another soldier, the army said.

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What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

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Claim 1: “Sam Fahd Abu Haikal was killed Friday evening and his parents were wounded while driving in the Tel Rumeida area south of Hebron”

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Claim 2: “The United States... has refused to grant visas to 15 members of Iran's delegation”

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Claim 3: “Egypt on Saturday began hosting a new round of truce talks with leaders from Hamas and other Palestinian factions”

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Claim 4: “the IAEA stated that the lack of access to nuclear sites in Iran constitutes a "proliferation concern"”

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Claim 5: “Iran's team is now based in Mexico, instead of their intended site in Tucson, Arizona”

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Claim 6: “Israel's military on Saturday said it had struck around 150 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon over the past two days”

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Claim 7: “Lebanese army commander General Rudolf Haykal has left on a visit to Pakistan”

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Claim 8: “media reports have estimated the sum [of frozen Iranian assets] at between $100 billion and $123 billion”

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Claim 9: “the players received their US visas, Washington's envoy to Turkey Tom Barrack said on X late Friday”

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Claim 10: “The new airport, in the town of Qlayaat in Lebanon's northernmost province of Akkar”

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Claim 11: “A ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump has failed to halt Israeli attacks and left Israel in control of more than half the enclave”

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Claim 12: “Lebanon reactivated its second airport on Saturday”

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Claim 13: “The Israeli military said soldiers shot at a vehicle perceived to be accelerating toward them in the Hebron area”

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Claim 14: “Iran's embassy to Turkey said a "large" number of managerial and executive staff and others had been denied visas”

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Claim 15: “Iran's World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave US soil on the same day as any match they must play in the United States”

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Claim 16: “Its bombing campaign and invasion of Lebanon's south have killed more than 3,500 people there, according to the Lebanese health ministry”

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One web result mentions the Lebanese Ministry of Health reporting attacks since March 2, but the specific figure of 'more than 3,500 people' is not corroborated by other provided sources.

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web search NEUTRAL — A war between Israel and Hezbollah took place in Lebanon during 2024 amid the Middle Eastern crisis. The war began in September 2024 following nearly 12 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_war

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 22, 2026 ... Lebanon was a Christian country for decades until Iran paid Hezbullah terrorists to descend upon it to attack Israel. Most Americans assume it ...
https://www.facebook.com/razasamo8/posts/lebanons-ministry-o…

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago ... (forces, infrastructure, missiles, rockets). 3)They attacked Israel one time too many. 4) Israel decided to clean up (mow the lawn so to speak) ...
https://www.facebook.com/trtworld/posts/there-is-widespread-…

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Claim 17: “Kuwait says Iran targeted international airport in renewed attack”

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Claim 18: “Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed nine people including three members of the Lebanese military”

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Claim 19: “Iran's World Cup squad have left Turkey for Mexico”

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Claim 20: “An Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon killed three soldiers”

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Multiple independent news sources (NPR, and other web results) report that an Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon killed three Lebanese soldiers, including senior officers.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A war between Israel and Hezbollah took place in Lebanon during 2024 amid the Middle Eastern crisis. The war began in September 2024 following nearly 12 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, with Israel invading parts of Lebanon. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezboll…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, is a long-running conflict involving Israel, Lebanon-based paramilitary groups, and sometimes Syria. The conflict peaked during the Lebane…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Lebanese_conflict

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Claim 21: “Bahrain's foreign ministry has decried attacks by Iran against its territory and neighbouring Kuwait, saying the two Gulf countries intercepted seven missiles fired by the Islamic republic”

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Claim 22: “Iran has condemned a nighttime US attack on coastal radar installations in the Gulf”

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Claim 23: “US says Iran fired seven ballistic missiles toward Kuwait, Bahrain”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kuwait and Iran have longstanding historical ties spanning hundreds of years, particularly in the pre-oil era. Relations were negatively influenced by the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and the Iran–Iraq …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Kuwait_relations

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, during the 2026 Iran war, Iran began launching a series of retaliatory strikes on American and Kuwaiti targets within Kuwait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait_in_the_2026_Iran_war

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Claim 24: “A seven-month-old baby was killed after Israeli troops opened fired at his parents’ vehicle in the occupied West Bank”

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Claim 25: “The team took off around 6.10 pm local time for Tijuana in northwest Mexico”

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Claim 26: “The strike on a vehicle on a road linking Nabatiyeh with Marjayoun killed a brigadier general, a captain and another soldier”

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Three separate web search results explicitly confirm that a strike on a road linking Nabatiyeh with Marjayoun killed a brigadier general, a captain, and another soldier.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — List of extrajudicial killings and political violence in Lebanon is a chronological record of lethal events—including targeted political liquidations, acts of collective violence, state-sponsored exec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extrajudicial_killings…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Marjayoun District is a district in the Nabatieh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Marjayoun. Marjayoun stands at a hill facing Mount Hermon to the East, with Beaufort Castle.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjayoun_District

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Southern Lebanon (Arabic: جنوب لبنان, romanized: Janūb Lubnān) is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same provinc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Lebanon

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Claim 27: “Israel had previously struck Iran in June 2025”

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Claim 28: “Captain Shahar Gamla, 23, died Saturday after succumbing to wounds sustained in combat”

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Multiple web sources confirm Captain Shahar Gamla died from combat wounds sustained in Lebanon. Note: one source lists age as 24, others as 23, but the core fact of his death and rank is corroborated.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the 2026 Lebanon war covers the period from 2 March 2026, when Hezbollah fired projectiles towards Israel from Lebanon following the start of the 2026 Iran war, to the present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2026_Lebanon_w…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 6, 2026 ... Gamla, a deputy company commander in the Egoz Unit of the IDF's Commando Brigade, died after being severely injured during combat in ...
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-89853…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 6, 2026 ... Capt. Shahar Gamla, 24, died of wounds sustained in an FPV drone attack in Lebanon, while Sgt. Ohad Yaari, 21, was killed in an incident ...
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bybjzezbge

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Claim 29: “Tehran was engaged in discussions with Washington about its nuclear programme when the US and Israel attacked it on February 28”

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Claim 30: “seven people were killed and 15 others, including children, were wounded when an Israeli airstrike targeted a large tent encampment in the heart of Gaza City”

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Claim 31: “An Israeli strike killed at least seven Palestinians including two women in Gaza on Saturday”

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Claim 32: “Team Melli had spent nearly three weeks at a training camp in Antalya”

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Claim 33: “Sergeant Ohad Yaari, 21, died Friday "during operational activity in southern Lebanon"”

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Multiple sources confirm Sergeant Ohad Yaari, 21, died during operational activity in southern Lebanon, with some specifying it was an accidental firearm discharge.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 6, 2026 ... Sergeant Ohad, from Rehovot, a soldier in the Shaked Battalion, Givati Brigade, fell during operational activity in southern Lebanon. The IDF ...
https://www.facebook.com/idfonline/posts/️captain-shahar-gam…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 6, 2026 ... Yaari, a soldier in the Shaked Battalion of the Givati Brigade, was killed during operational activity in southern Lebanon. Israeli soldiers are ...
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-89853…

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Claim 34: “the June 11 start of the 2026 World Cup, which is being jointly hosted by the US, Mexico and Canada”

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Claim 35: “Israel has lost 29 soldiers since the start of the latest war in Lebanon, as well as one civilian contractor”

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The web search results provided for this claim are irrelevant (discussing CSS assets and GitHub updates) and do not contain any information regarding Israeli casualty figures.

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web search NEUTRAL — where is the css asset ? The second problem requires us to have this mapping for each file. For JS this is done by creating an AST from the output asset, and reverse engineering the webpack bundling p…
https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer/d…

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web search NEUTRAL — Updates lodash to fix security issue (lodash/lodash#4336) Updates package-lock.json
https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer/p…

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web search NEUTRAL — okovpashko Nov 10, 2016 Running analyzer in server mode causes an express error
https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer/i…

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Claim 36: “Israeli army says two soldiers killed in Lebanon”

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While web results mention Israeli soldiers being killed in Lebanon, the specific claim that the army said 'two' soldiers were killed is not clearly corroborated by the provided snippets; one source mentions four killed, another mentions a tank commander and three others.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 19, 2026 ... An Israeli tank battalion commander and three other soldiers were killed on June 19 in a Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon, according to ...
https://www.facebook.com/trtworld/posts/an-israeli-tank-batt…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 24, 2026 ... Four Israeli soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in a clash with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces ...
https://www.facebook.com/ArabNews/posts/breaking-israel-army…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 23, 2026 ... Israeli soldiers have shot dead two people in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says, in the first fatal incident reported ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36ykpw0yego

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Claim 37: “The United States imposed new sanctions on Iran targeting network allegedly using front companies in the United Arab Emirates and China to export liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)”

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