Seven killed – At least seven people were killed in Lebanon on Sunday, including a child and two elderly residents, as Israel’s raids hit areas in the Bekaa Valley and Tyre amid continuing fighting with Hezbollah.
Israeli raids left at least seven people dead across Lebanon on Sunday, striking homes and intensifying a day of violence that has not shown signs of slowing.
Lebanese state media reported that among the dead were a child and two elderly people. The National News Agency said a child. a woman and two elderly people were killed in the town of Sahmar in the Bekaa Valley. Further south, two Palestinian people were killed in the Rashidieh refugee camp in Tyre, according to the same source.
The Israel Defense Forces said it was not familiar with any IDF activity in those locations since midnight Sunday local time.
The deaths landed inside communities that have spent months living close to the front lines. After hostilities flared between Israel and Hezbollah in early March. Palestinian communities in refugee camps across Lebanon’s south have been among those “most exposed to military activity. ” according to the nonprofit American Near East Refugee Aid.
Anera estimates that about 222,000 Palestinians live in Lebanon today. In its report published on Thursday. the nonprofit said many began settling there during al-Nakba. the “catastrophe” of 1948. when more than 700. 000 Palestinians fled or were forcibly expelled from their homes following the 1948/49 war. in what is now Israel.
In Tyre and nearby camps—including Rashidieh, Burj El Shemali and El Buss—Anera described “recurring insecurity, nearby strikes and periods of isolation.” It said the war has stripped Palestinian communities, already living with prolonged precarity, of “any sense of security.”
The sequence of reported raids and the IDF denial since midnight Sunday local time leaves a stark gap between what families and local authorities are describing on the ground and what the military is able—or willing—to confirm. For the camps where people have been repeatedly pulled into the orbit of strikes and stoppages. that gap is not theoretical. It is measured in bodies, in names, and in the fear that the next movement could be another one.
Where the situation stands now is still being written in real time: Lebanese state media continued to report the dead in Sahmar and in Rashidieh, while the IDF said it was not familiar with activity in the reported areas since midnight Sunday local time.
Dana Karni contributed reporting.
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