Israel strikes southern Lebanon after evacuation warnings to several villages

Key points

• Israel’s air force struck different parts of southern Lebanon on Friday (June 5, 2026), and its military issued evacuation warnings for nine villages, including one that has been spared much of the destruction and has sheltered thousands of people displaced by the three-month war.
• The Israeli strikes killed nine people in six locations in southern Lebanon, the state news agency reported.
• Meanwhile, the new warnings forced hundreds of families to flee the village of Anqoun and the area of Aarnaya, on the edge of the predominantly Christian community of Maghdoucheh, near the southern port city of Sidon.
• Elsewhere, people began to return to their homes to survey the aftermath of fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group.
• Wide parts of the south have already been devastated by the war.