A Lebanese displaced family who fled their village in south Lebanon, arrive in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. AP
Israel conducted strikes on the densely populated Al Masaken neighborhood in Tyre, killing at least eight people and injuring 28 others.
The Israeli occupation army also struck Deir Qanoun an-Nahr, killing four, and Sidon, killing two people and setting fire to multiple vehicles.
Shortly after the strikes on Tyre, Israel issued new forced displacement orders for Palestinian refugee camps in the city and surrounding areas, including the Christian quarter, prompting a mass exodus. People fled with mattresses and belongings, filling the narrow streets of Tyre’s historic port district, The Guardian reported.
The Christian quarter had not previously been struck and had been considered a relatively safe zone, with many displaced Shia Muslims, displaced from other parts of the city, sheltering there, The Guardian said.
Despite the Lebanese army deploying to Tyre's Christian quarter last week as civilians arrived, aiming to deter further attacks by signalling to Israel that Hezbollah resistance fighters were not present, Israel's occupation army has continued to attack the city, forcing thousands of Lebanese to flee north beyond the Zahrani River.
According to the United Nations (UN), the Israeli displacement orders issued for Tyre affect nearly 44,000 people, including the local population, camp refugees, and thousands of Lebanese who had already been displaced from border villages and previously sought shelter in the city.
The mass forced displacement comes amid continued Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon, including in the Tyre, Nabatieh, and Bint Jbeil districts, despite a US-brokered ceasefire between the Lebanese and Israeli governments in effect since 17 April.
Since the truce, the Israeli occupation army has killed at least 600 Lebanese, Lebanon's health ministry stated. However, Israel repeatedly violating ceasefires and killing hundreds is not new. Between November 2024, when a ceasefire was brokered between Israel and the Lebanese government based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, and 2 March 2026, when Israel escalated its war on Lebanon once more, the Israeli occupation forces killed over 331 people across Lebanon and wounded hundreds of others.
Similarly, Israel has also continued to violate its ceasefire with Hamas, in effect since October, and has since killed at least 980 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, injured thousands, and created an aid bottleneck that has made any progress toward recovery in the enclave impossible.
Israel has also killed Lebanese soldiers in recent days.
Just two days after the Lebanese and Israeli governments agreed to a conditional truce framework in Washington on 3 June—which sought to establish pilot security zones in the south under exclusive Lebanese army control—an Israeli strike targeted a Lebanese army vehicle in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing three personnel, including a brigadier general and a captain.
Hezbollah has clearly rejected US-mediated direct talks between Israeli and Lebanese authorities, insisting that Lebanon rely on Iranian support and be included in any broader ceasefire arrangement linked to the wider US–Israeli war on Iran.
Islamabad is leading negotiations between Washington and Tehran aimed at a permanent end to the war, with Iran saying any agreement must also include a halt to Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
Since 2 March, Israel has killed at least 3,666 people in Lebanon, injured 11,321, and forcibly displaced over 1.4 million. In the past 24 hours alone, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported 28 deaths and 139 injuries.
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