Amid the escalating tensions in West Asia, Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Health confirmed that at least 14 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the country on Sunday<\/p>\n
Amid the escalating tensions in The latest spate of violence has become concerning since it is happening even after Israel and Lebanon agreed to a STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/p>\n The evacuation order stated that residents \u201cmust evacuate\u201d immediately and that staying would be \u201cendangering their lives\u201d. IDF later said that it had\u00a0carried out \u201cartillery and aerial strikes\u201d targeting Hezbollah operatives and sites in southern Lebanon that it claims were used \u201cto advance attacks against IDF soldiers\u201d.<\/p>\n It also mentioned that a 19-year-old The fragile ceasefire<\/p>\n What is concerning is the fact that the two nations remain under a precarious semi-permanent ceasefire, which took effect on April 16 and was extended by three weeks on Thursday last week. What is important to point out is the fact that under the deal, Israel retains its \u201cright to take all necessary measures in self-defence, at any time, against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n While speaking at a government meeting on Sunday, Israel\u2019s Prime Minister \u201cWe are acting vigorously according to the rules we agreed upon with the United States, and incidentally, with Lebanon as well. This means freedom of action, not only to respond to attacks, which is obvious, but to thwart immediate threats and also to neutralise emerging threats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s attack from Israel came after the IDF said it struck Hezbollah \u201cmilitary structures\u201d overnight, and accused the Iran-backed group of launching two explosive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) towards Israel. Since the extension of the ceasefire, both Israel and Hezbollah have reported attacks from one another since the ceasefire came into place, accusing each other of violating the agreement.<\/p>\n STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/p>\n On Saturday, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to \u201cvigorously attack Hezbollah targets\u201d in Lebanon. At least six people were killed in strikes on southern Lebanon on the same day. Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister, The diplomatic manoeuvring is coming at a time when US President Donald Trump has unilaterally extended a ceasefire between Iran and the US that had been due to expire on 22 April.<\/p>\n First Published: Home<\/a>World<\/a>Israel strikes on Lebanon kill 14 as fragile ceasefire faces the harshest testEnd of Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the escalating tensions in West Asia, Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Health confirmed that at least 14 people were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[30302,22896,30300,30303,30301,3542,15473,93,8598],"class_list":{"0":"post-84966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu-lebanon","9":"tag-ceasefire-violations","10":"tag-hezbollah-drone-attacks","11":"tag-hezbollah-military-structures","12":"tag-idf-artillery-strikes","13":"tag-israel-lebanon-ceasefire","14":"tag-israeli-strikes-lebanon","15":"tag-lebanon","16":"tag-west-asia-tensions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWest Asia<\/a>, Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Health confirmed that at least 14 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the country on Sunday. The ministry noted that the death toll included two children, two women and the Israeli attack injured 37 others.<\/p>\n
\nthree-week ceasefire extension<\/a> in Washington. Earlier, an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesperson issued evacuation warnings for several villages in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
\nIDF soldier<\/a> had been killed and a Hezbollah drone attack in Lebanon injured six others. Meanwhile, Hezbollah also launched three drones towards Israel, the IDF reported, which it said were intercepted by Israel\u2019s air force before they crossed the border.<\/p>\n
\nBenjamin Netanyahu<\/a> said the IDF is \u201cactive, and it is acting with force\u201d in Lebanon, stating Hezbollah\u2019s actions are \u201cdisintegrating the ceasefire\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nAbbas Araghchi,<\/a> returned to Pakistan on Sunday to set out Tehran\u2019s framework for resuming peace negotiations with Washington.<\/p>\n
\nApril 27, 2026, 06:16 IST<\/p>\n