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Israeli strikes kill six in southern Lebanon hours after extension of ceasefire

The Guardian · · 508 words · By Julian Borger
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“Israel carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least six people, including three paramedics working at a health centre”
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Multiple independent sources (The Guardian, Naharnet) confirm that Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed six people, including three paramedics.
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web search NEUTRAL — Three people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on Aita al-Shaab, in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said. One Syrian national was killed in the southern town of Qana and another wounded, t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Israeli_attacks…
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web search NEUTRAL — Six people were killed, including three paramedics, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Displaced residents from southern Lebanon say the truce is not being implemented.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260516-israel-str…
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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli warplanes carried out a series of heavy airstrikes across multiple districts in southern Lebanon. A strike on a building in the city of Tyre injured several civilians and paramedics due to fal…
https://staging-en.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--wel…
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“Israel also said it had killed the Hamas military chief, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, in a targeted strike in Gaza on Friday.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Israel claimed to have killed Hamas military leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad in a Gaza strike on Friday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict refers to tactics employed in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict where non-combatants are placed in the line of fire to prevent military objectives from…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shields_in_the_Israeli–P…
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“reports in the US and Israeli press said Donald Trump had been briefed on his military options in Iran”
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Reports from Axios and other news outlets (All Israel News, NYT) indicate that Donald Trump was briefed on military options regarding Iran.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the 2026 Iran war, the United States and Israel have sought strategies aimed at regime change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, seeking to destabilize or overthrow the government through militar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_change_efforts_in_the_2…
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“Lebanon’s state-run media reported that at least five villages in the south of the country had been hit by strikes”
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The Guardian specifically reports that Lebanon's state-run media reported at least five villages in the south were hit by strikes.
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web search NEUTRAL — Lebanese state media reported that Israeli forces mostly left Lebanon, except for five Israeli military outposts in Lebanon.[413] The Lebanese government stated it would not tolerate IDF troops remain…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Israeli_invasion_of_Leban…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lebanon’s state-run media reported that at least five villages in the south of the country had been hit by strikes, and the Israeli military confirmed on Saturday that it was targeting what it said wa…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/16/israeli-strike…
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web search NEUTRAL — Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto, reporting from Tyre, southern Lebanon, on Saturday, said: “Today, there have been artillery strikes in the eastern part of the country, in Yohmor and Kherbet Qanafar. This i…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/16/israeli-strikes-on-…
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“the Israeli military confirmed on Saturday that it was targeting what it said was “Hezbollah infrastructure” in southern Lebanon.”
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Both France 24 and The Guardian report that the Israeli military confirmed on Saturday it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezbollah–Israel conflict that b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas's October 7 att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(202…
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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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“Lebanese authorities said that an airstrike on Friday had hit a clinic run by the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Committee, killing six people, three of them paramedics.”
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The Guardian and Naharnet both report that Lebanese authorities stated a Friday airstrike hit a clinic run by the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Committee, killing six people, including three paramedics.
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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 — An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas's October 7 att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(202…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israeli attacks on the Lebanese health sector during the 2023–2024 Israel–Hezbollah conflict were proportionally more deadly than any other war in the world between October 7, 2023, and November 18, 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_attacks_on_the_Lebanes…
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“An Israeli military statement said it had killed Hezbollah militants preparing to fire rockets at its troops in southern Lebanon.”
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While there are reports of Israeli strikes and Hezbollah rocket fire, the specific phrasing that the military stated it killed militants 'preparing to fire rockets at its troops' is not explicitly corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence; most sources mention general infrastructure or commanders.
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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 Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezbollah–Israel conflict that b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas's October 7 att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(202…
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“envoys from Israel and Lebanon completed a round of talks in Washington, with an agreement to extend a month-long partly observed ceasefire for a further 45 days, and to establish a US-supervised security mechanism between their armies.”
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The Guardian, France 24, and other reports confirm that envoys in Washington agreed to extend a ceasefire for 45 days and establish a security mechanism.
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web search NEUTRAL — Shaky truce between Israel and Lebanon extended for 45 days, US says.Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control. 22 Apr 2026. Israel strikes Beirut for the first time s…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/16/israeli-strike…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lebanon welcomed a 45-day extension of the ceasefire with Israel following two days of negotiations in Washington, even as Israeli attacks continued across Lebanon, killing at least 11 people on Wedne…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/leb…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lebanon and Israel agreed on Friday to extend a ceasefire by 45 days despite a new flare-up in violence, the US State Department said after mediating talks in Washington.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260515-israel-leba…
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“Israel has only partly observed the ceasefire ordered by Trump on 17 April”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a ceasefire ordered by Trump on April 17 or the extent to which it was observed.
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“Haddad, the latest acting Hamas military chief to die in Gaza, and the last surviving Hamas senior official suspected of planning the attack on southern Israel in October 2023, which killed 1,200 people”
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While evidence confirms the death of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, there is no evidence in the provided results confirming he was the 'last surviving senior official' suspected of planning the October 2023 attack.
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“Israel has accused Hamas of violating the fragile eight-month-old ceasefire in Gaza by refusing to disarm.”
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“Hamas has blamed Israel for failing to abide by the first phase of the truce, continuing airstrikes and stealthily moving the agreed demarcation line between the two forces westwards into Hamas-controlled parts of Gaza.”
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“As Trump returned to the US from a visit to China on Friday, the New York Times reported that he had been briefed on US options for returning to the offensive in Iran”
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“Pakistani-led mediation has failed to bring diplomatic progress in more than a month since Islamabad brokered a ceasefire in the Iran war”
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