Israel strikes Lebanon while Hezbollah calls talks 'dead end'

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Israeli strikes have targeted eastern and southern Lebanon, state media reported, despite a fragile ceasefire, as a Hezbollah lawmaker called Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel a “dead-end”.

Two Israeli strikes hit the town of Sohmor in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said, adding that others took place across southern Lebanon.

“The direct negotiations that the authorities in Lebanon have conducted with the Israeli enemy have… led them down a dead-end path that will result in nothing but one concession after another,” Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein Hajj Hassan said.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Zibqin on May 17, 2026. — AFP
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Zibqin on May 17, 2026. — AFP

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