Two Israeli attacks on the same building in a city in the South Lebanon killed five people this Tuesday, including three rescuers who went to help those injured in the initial attack, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported. Also this Tuesday, Israeli attacks killed five people in the Gaza Strip, including a 9-year-old boy.
A spokesman for the Lebanese Civil Defense, a state rescue force, told Reuters that the three rescuers were trapped under the rubble of the second Israeli attack on the town of Majdal Zoun, and were later confirmed dead. Two Lebanese soldiers were also injured in the second Israeli attack.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the attacks as “a new and flagrant war crime committed by Israel.”
More than 2,500 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon since March 2, when Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired on Israeli positions and unleashed a vast Israeli air and ground campaign. The number of victims includes more than a hundred doctors, as well as more than 270 women and more than 170 children, with several journalists among the fatalities.
The ceasefire mediated by the United States, agreed between Israel and Lebanon, led to a reduction in hostilities, but Israel and Hezbollah continue to confront each other, especially in the south of the country, accusing each other of mutually of ceasefire violations.
Picking up cardboard
In Gaza, a drone Israeli attack killed a child, Adel Al-Najjar, in the eastern area of Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, while an Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle in Gaza City, killing four people.
Regarding the attack on Khan Younisthe Israeli Armed Forces claimed to have targeted an individual who posed a threat to Israeli troops as he approached the “yellow line”, which delimits the part of Gaza occupied by Israel. No evidence was presented that the individual had posed a threat. As for the attack in the city of Gaza, the justification was that it targeted a “terrorist”, but no evidence was presented either.
At the Nasser Hospital morgue, family members arrived to say goodbye to Najjar’s small body, wrapped in a white sheet. The women cried beside the body, which was on a medical stretcher on the ground, and the men said a special prayer before taking it to the cemetery to be buried.
The boy was collecting cardboard that the family uses for cooking, according to family members. There has been no electricity in Gaza since the intensification of the war in October 2023, and Palestinians complain about the Israeli restrictions to the cooking gas inlet. “We don’t have gas. We collect cardboard for cooking, they want to eat, they want to drink”, said one of the boy’s relatives, Sabreen Al-Najjar.
THE violence in Gaza has persisted despite the October 2025 ceasefire, with Israel carrying out almost daily attacks against Palestinians. At least 800 people have been killed since the ceasefire came into effect, according to local doctors, while Israel says jihadist attacks have killed four of its soldiers during the same period.
“Isn’t it shameful what is happening to us? Isn’t it shameful that we bury our children every day, right in front of us? Isn’t it shameful? I swear to God, our hearts are broken for these children”, said another family member, Suhaib Al-Najjar, at the morgue.
