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Israel strikes Lebanon after 'last chance' truce announcement

Al Monitor 2026/06/04 16:28

Israel carried out new strikes in Lebanon on Thursday and again threatened Beirut, despite the two countries agreeing to a conditional ceasefire that Lebanon's president called the "last chance" for a durable end to the fighting.

A United Nations peacekeeper was killed and two others were wounded, the UNIFIL force said, after a base was hit the previous night in the south, where Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah are fighting.

Belgrade said the slain peacekeeper was Serbian, with seven blue helmets now killed since the latest war erupted in March.

Read full story at source (Al Monitor)