First responders evacuate a body from the site of an overnight Israeli strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Hatta, on April 5, 2026.
A source from the Lebanese civil defence told AFP that the family, already displaced from a town further south and lacking a car, had been waiting for a relative to pick them up. The relative was also killed in the strike, bringing the death toll from the Israeli strike in southern Lebanon to seven.
The assault came as another Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday, Lebanese state media reported.
The Israeli strike targeted Beirut’s Jnah neighbourhood, less than 100 metres from the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Lebanon's largest public medical facility, killing at least four people and injuring 39, per the Lebanese health ministry.
Earlier, Israeli occupation forces had struck a building in south Beirut after issuing an evacuation warning.
“The enemy targeted the threatened building in the Ghobeiry area towards Bir Hassan-Jnah,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. An AFP photographer saw a missile hit a building, while Israeli warplanes flew at low altitude over the capital.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah on Sunday said it had targeted an Israeli warship with a cruise missile off the Lebanese coast, the first such claim by the group since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
In a statement, the group said it targeted the vessel 68 nautical miles off the Lebanese coast, stating that the warship was "preparing to launch attacks on Lebanese territory".
Israeli warships have been used on several recent occasions to launch strikes on Lebanon.
Since 2 March, Israel has intensified airstrikes and launched a ground offensive in Lebanon, killing more than 1,422 people, including children, women, health workers, and journalists.
The Israeli war on Lebanon has so far displaced over 1.2 million people.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated on Sunday a call for negotiations with Israel, saying he wanted to spare his country's south from destruction on the scale seen in Gaza.
In the southern village of Debel, close to the Israeli border, inhabitants prepared to celebrate Easter Sunday despite the sound of bombardment around their village, now almost totally cut off from the world and dependent on aid deliveries.
"The situation is tragic," town notable Joseph Attieh told AFP by phone. "People are terrified, and the sound of shelling and gunfire has not stopped for a moment since last night. We haven't been able to sleep."
"We are putting our trust in God," Attieh added, since "this is the only glimmer of hope we will not give up on".
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