Israel's killing 22 people a month in Lebanon
Israel has carried out nearly 3,000 attacks on a near-weekly basis since its 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah
Continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon since a ceasefire in November 2024 have resulted in over 1,100 casualties, Lebanese government data reveals, with Israeli strikes escalating since last December.
A collation of all incidents publicly documented by Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health shows that Israel has killed 350 people in Lebanon since the ceasefire began — an average of 22 deaths per month — and wounded a further 793.
A separate data log by Danish intelligence solutions firm, Atlas Assistance, and obtained by Deepcut listed almost 3,000 Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the ceasefire.
The updated death toll comes less than a week after the deadliest Israeli attack so far this year, when 10 people, including a Hezbollah commander, were killed in a strike in the Bekaa Valley. Twenty-four people, including three children, were also wounded. Hezbollah said in response that it “no longer has any option” but to defend itself.
Ongoing ceasefire violations
A UN report last November revealed that Israel had violated the ceasefire 10,000 times, including land, air and sea violations. Atlas Assistance – whose figures are drawn upon by humanitarian organisations – listed a total of 2,932 Israeli attacks on Lebanon since November 2024 (excluding February 2026), with an uptick in December 2025 and last month.
The Atlas figures include Israeli attacks via warplanes, drone strikes, shelling and cross-border shooting as well as explosive building demolitions and arson inside Lebanon.
Israel still occupies five outposts in south Lebanon, and, in addition to deadly strikes, has destroyed homes and reconstruction equipment in border villages, built walls inside Lebanese territory and allowed Israeli settlers to enter the country.
According to the ceasefire terms, both Israel and Hezbollah were required to “implement a cessation of hostilities beginning at 04:00 hours on 27 November 2024”. That day, however, Israel carried out numerous attacks on Lebanon resulting in 14 deaths and another 14 wounded, according to Lebanese government figures.
Those attacks set the tone for Israel’s approach to Lebanon – a ceasefire it considers applicable only to the Lebanese side, while it strikes as it pleases with impunity.
The Lebanese government’s record of incidents since show that Israeli attacks have persisted on a near-weekly basis, primarily in southern and eastern Lebanon. The two longest pauses in Israeli violence were 24 days over the new year period heading into 2025 and 17 days in February that year.
The deadliest month was November 2025, when Israel killed a total of 40 people and wounded 91.
As the data shows, most of the attacks have been limited to single-digit fatalities, with an occasional attack resulting in mass casualties.
Iran backdrop hangs over Lebanon
Israel has imposed new rules of engagement on Hezbollah, and Lebanon more broadly, since the November 2024 ceasefire. Through its continued attacks, it’s asserting free rein to dominate Lebanon’s skies and target villagers and Hezbollah members alike.
Operating in tandem is the Trump administration, which is heaping pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah.
The government has sought to tread a delicate line between avoiding a civil war – a likely consequence of any attempt to disarm Hezbollah – and appeasing Trump with repeated gestures toward a phased disarmament plan.
Hanging over this fragile scene is the spectre of a US-Iran war, with the US deploying a massive force to the region at a cost of at least US$350m. A US-Iran war could potentially ensnare Lebanon.
Hezbollah has already indicated it will not remain neutral if Iran is attacked, prompting an Israeli warning this week that it would target Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure, including Beirut international airport, in response.
Regardless of whether a US-Iran war breaks out, the status quo of weekly Israeli attacks is intolerable for communities in southern Lebanon. They face an impossible choice: endure ongoing Israeli strikes, or risk a renewed war that might restore deterrence – with no guarantee of success and at a high cost.
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I follow Laith Malouf of FPTV’s reporting. It’s disgusting the horrors that Israel commits against the people of Lebanon 💔 Israel truly is a terror state. There will never be peace with the attitude they have towards others 😡