Five people, including a girl, were reported killed on Saturday in southern Lebanon as the Israel Defense Forces carried out a series of strikes after issuing evacuation warnings to nine villages.
Residents of Tayr Debba, Aabbasiyyeh, Burj Rahal, Maaroub, Barish, Arzoun, Jannata, Zrariyeh, and Ain Baal were instructed to evacuate at least a kilometer away.
“In light of the Hezbollah terror organization’s violations of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF is forced to act against it with force and does not intend to harm you,” warned army spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee.
Lebanese media reported at least five dead in the subsequent Israeli airstrikes.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that three people were killed when a strike hit a car on a road between the towns of Burj Rahal and Aabbasiyyeh.
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NNA reported several more strikes near the towns of Nabatieh, Kafra, Haris, and Mansouri.
In a separate incident, a Syrian man and his 12-year-old daughter were reported killed in Israeli drone strikes.
NNA, citing a health ministry statement, said that the man and his daughter were riding a motorcycle when they were targeted in Nabatieh.
This photograph taken from the southern Lebanese area of Nabatieh shows smoke rising from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the village of Mayfadoun on May 9, 2026. (Photo by Abbas FAKIH / AFP)
According to the statement, the first drone strike did not hit the pair, while a second killed the father. The man’s daughter then moved around 100 meters away before she was targeted in a third strike.
The girl was taken to a hospital in serious condition, where she succumbed to her wounds, NNA reported
The IDF said it was looking into the report.
In addition, Lebanese media reported that at least two vehicles were targeted in Israeli strikes on a coastal highway south of Beirut.
The vehicles were struck near the seaside town of Saadiyat, some 70 kilometers north of Israel’s border, according to the reports.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF.
The strikes came after the IDF said it struck over 85 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in the past day, along with an underground weapons site in the Beqaa Valley.
According to the military, the targets in southern Lebanon included weapon depots, rocket launchers, and buildings used by Hezbollah to advance attacks.
Members of the terror group who were planning attacks on troops stationed in southern Lebanon were also targeted in strikes, the military said.
In the eastern Beqaa Valley, the IDF said, it struck an underground facility where Hezbollah manufactured weapons.
ביממה האחרונה: צה”ל תקף יותר מ-85 תשתיות של ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה במספר מרחבים בלבנון
צה”ל ממשיך לפעול להסרת איומים על אזרחי ישראל וכוחות צה”ל בדרום לבנון.
במהלך היממה האחרונה, צה”ל תקף מהאוויר ומהיבשה, יותר מ-85 תשתיות של ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה. בין התשתיות שהותקפו: מחסני אמצעי… pic.twitter.com/2bpoxtlstY
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) May 9, 2026
The IDF said Hezbollah also launched several more rockets at Israeli troops stationed in southern Lebanon in the past day, with no injuries caused.
It also said that an explosive drone launched by Hezbollah was located in Israeli territory on Saturday, close to the border with Lebanon.
The IDF said no damage or injuries were caused by the drone, and sappers were working to safely remove it from the area.
The incident was under further investigation, the military added.
Images showed that the first-person view (FPV) drone, which was guided by a fiber-optic cable, landed without the warhead exploding.
A first-person view (FPV) drone fired by Hezbollah that landed without exploding in northern Israel, May 9, 2026. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
The continued clashes have underlined challenges facing US efforts to forge peace between Israel and Lebanon, which held rare face-to-face talks last month. The Hezbollah terror group has fiercely objected to the government’s decision to hold negotiations with Israel.
Despite the ceasefire reached between Israel and Lebanon in mid-April, which has since been extended into May, Hezbollah has fired rockets and drones at northern Israeli communities, though most attacks have been on troops in southern Lebanon or on the Israeli side of the border.
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah on Saturday warned of “a new phase, in which the resistance (Hezbollah) will not accept a return to pre-March 2.”
“When it attacks our villages and suburbs, the enemy must expect a response, and this is what the resistance is doing,” Fadlallah said, alluding to an Israeli attack this week on Beirut’s southern suburbs that killed Ahmed Ghaleb Balout, the chief of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force in Beirut.
He also said direct talks with Israel amounted to a “path of concessions,” reiterating his party’s call for the government to withdraw in favor of indirect talks.
The US is set to host the third round of ambassador-level talks between representatives from Israel and Lebanon on May 14 and 15.
Joining diplomats from each side will, for the first time, be military representatives, an Israeli official said, adding that the sides would discuss more concrete measures that can be taken to disarm Hezbollah.
Over 2,500 people have been killed and about a million displaced in Lebanon since Hezbollah began firing on Israel on March 2, according to Lebanese authorities. The IDF said it has killed over 1,900 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force.
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