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May 13, 2026
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Israeli Drone Strikes Kill at Least Eight in Lebanon's Highway

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At least eight people, including two children, were killed in Israeli drone strikes on a highway south of Beirut, Lebanon. The strikes have escalated tensions as Lebanon and Israel are set to hold new round of direct negotiations in Washington.

The Deadly Israeli Drone Strikes

Three Israeli drone strikes on cars on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon have killed at least eight people, including two children, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported.

A photograph of the bombed cars shared by Lebanon’s National News Agency following the attacks on Wednesday in the Jiyeh area, some 20km (12 miles) south of the Lebanese capital, showed the vehicles severely damaged, their exteriors charred and torn apart.

Escalating Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, said the “conflict is only escalating”.

“It is a conflict that is taking a high toll on the civilians who live in these areas,” she said.

Lebanon and Israel are expected to hold a new round of direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday, brokered by the United States.

Hezbollah, which has been launching attacks on northern Israel and on Israeli troops who have entered and occupied a section of southern Lebanon, says it opposes the negotiations in the US.

The Humanitarian Toll

On Wednesday morning, the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for the residents of Meiss el-Jabal, Yanouh, Burj Shemali, Hula, Debl and Aabbasiyyeh, warning that it will soon act against these six southern Lebanese villages “forcefully”.

Anyone who remains “endangers their life,” the military said, warning residents to move at least 1,000 metres (0.6 miles) away to “open areas”.

After this new round of forced displacement orders – which have been happening almost daily in the past week – Al Jazeera’s Khodr said one of the few remaining hospitals in the area was in the displacement zone.

  • At least 100,000 people still live in the district of Tyre.
  • 13 people were killed in attacks on towns in the south on Tuesday.
  • Two Lebanese Civil Defence paramedics were among the dead.
  • At least 380 people have been killed during the truce.
  • The total death toll since the Israeli invasion and bombardment began on March 2 is more than 2,800.
  • 108 emergency medical services and healthcare workers have been killed in Lebanon during the war.

The Future Outlook

“All of this is having a huge impact here on the communities in southern Lebanon,” Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto said from Tyre. “And there is a growing humanitarian crisis, with over a million people displaced.”