Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 570, displace 780,000 since 2 March

Yasmine Osama Farag , Wednesday 11 Mar 2026

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 570 people since 2 March, when Israel resumed an expanded bombing campaign across the country, Lebanese authorities said, adding that ongoing airstrikes have also forced about 780,000 people to flee their homes.

Emergency personnel and residents gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the Aisha Bakkar neighbourhood of Beirut on March 11, 2026. AFP

Israel, which had continued striking Lebanon even before the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran despite a 2024 ceasefire, has launched air raids across the country and sent ground troops into border areas.

According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, the offensive has left 570 people dead, including 439 men, 45 women, 86 children, and 14 healthcare workers.

Lebanese authorities said on Wednesday that around 780,000 people have been registered as displaced due to the ongoing Israeli strikes, with more than 120,000 taking shelter in government-run facilities.

The latest figures come as Israel continues its attacks across Lebanon, including a strike on an apartment building in central Beirut, the second attack on the heart of the capital since the war on Iran began.

The strike set the building ablaze in Beirut’s densely populated Aicha Bakkar district, engulfing its top two floors. Lebanon’s health ministry reported four people were wounded in the attack.

Moreover, Israeli strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon killed 14 people. A Red Cross worker died Wednesday from injuries sustained on Monday when his rescue team was hit by an Israeli strike while responding to an earlier attack.

The health ministry said seven people were killed and 11 wounded in a strike on the southern village of Chehabiyeh, while another seven were killed and 18 wounded in a separate strike on Tamnine El-Tahta in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

Lebanon’s state news agency said the strike on Tamnine El-Tahta hit a home housing a Syrian family, while a resident described the targeted site as a small concrete block factory.

The Israeli military said Wednesday it carried out “an additional wave of air strikes overnight in the Dahieh area of Beirut,” referring to the capital’s southern suburbs.

Video footage showed destroyed buildings and heavy damage to nearby apartment blocks following the strikes.