{"id":12966,"date":"2026-05-13T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/israel-attacks-southern-lebanon-8-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:20:24","slug":"israel-attacks-southern-lebanon-8-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/israel-attacks-southern-lebanon-8-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Launches Extensive Attacks in Southern Lebanon, Killing Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a continuation of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, at least eight people, including a woman and two children, have been killed, and several others injured. Lebanese sources report that multiple towns and transportation routes in southern Lebanon have been targeted by bombings and drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Lebanese Ministry of Health&#8217;s Emergency Medical Center announced that in three separate attacks on the Saida\u2013South coastal highway in the areas of Barja, Al-Jibiyah, and Al-Saadayat, eight people were killed. Additionally, a drone strike near the Saida stadium killed one person and wounded another.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese news agencies also reported that at least four vehicles were targeted between the cities of Saida and Beirut. According to local sources, Israeli drones targeted vehicles on the Beirut\u2013Al-Jiyeh route as well.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli fighter jets bombed the towns of Dbaal in Tyre, Abbasiyah, Deir Qanoun, Al-Kharayeb, Kafr Rumman, Majdal Zoun, Toulon, and Al-Qulaylah. Following the attack on Deir Qanoun and eastern Tyre, two wounded individuals were transferred to the Tyre hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Avichay Adraee, spokesperson for the Israeli army, has urged residents of Kafr Hitti, Arab Salim, and Deir Al-Zahrani to evacuate these areas \u2014 a move observers interpret as a threat of further escalation of attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military claims it has targeted over 40 Hezbollah-related positions in southern Lebanon within the past 24 hours. These attacks come amid ongoing ceasefire violations and rising concerns about widening hostilities along Lebanon\u2019s southern borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s airstrikes in southern Lebanon kill 8, including children, with multiple towns and routes bombed amid escalating conflict along the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}