At least 12 people were reported killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, as the military said that three reservists were wounded by Hezbollah explosive drones.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces carried out a series of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon after issuing evacuation warnings to nine villages.

Hezbollah and Israel have continued to attack each other since US President Donald Trump first announced a ceasefire on April 16, which has now largely unraveled, though fighting remains at a lower level than before.

On Saturday, the terror group launched several explosive-laden drones and rockets at Israeli forces.

One drone struck Israeli territory, close to the border with Lebanon, seriously injuring a reservist soldier and moderately wounding a reservist officer and another reservist soldier.

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The troops were taken to a hospital, and their families were notified, the army said.

In another incident, the military said an explosive drone struck an unmanned engineering vehicle in southern Lebanon, causing damage. No injuries were caused.

Separately, several rockets launched by Hezbollah at troops in southern Lebanon were intercepted by air defenses, the IDF added.

Another 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)

On Saturday morning, the military instructed residents of the southern Lebanon villages of Tayr Debba, Aabbasiyyeh, Burj Rahal, Maaroub, Barish, Arzoun, Jannata, Zrariyeh, and Ain Baal to evacuate at least a kilometer away ahead of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure.

“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.

Meanwhile, Lebanese media reported that Israeli airstrikes on Saturday killed at least 12 people, including in areas where no evacuation orders were issued.

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.

In a separate incident, a Syrian man and his 12-year-old daughter were reported killed in Israeli drone strikes in the Nabatieh area while riding a motorcycle.

According to a health ministry statement cited by NNA, 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.


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)

Lebanon’s health ministry said another Israeli strike on the southern town of Saksakiyeh killed at least seven people, including a girl.

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.

Earlier, on Saturday morning, 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.

 

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.