At least 12 people were killed in Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon on Friday, November 6, including a child, Lebanon's health ministry said. Israeli forces killed at least eight people in the village of Habboush in the Nabatieh district and wounded at least eight others, and another four people were reported killed in other attacks near Tyre and Nabatieh, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported, according to Al Jazeera. AFP, reporting the same Friday toll via the Economic Times, also said the health ministry put the dead at 12, including in Habboush, where the Israeli army had issued an evacuation order.

Source: Al Jazeera

Israel issued a forced evacuation order to residents of Habboush on Friday. The military's Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee told people in a social-media post to move at least 1,000 metres away immediately, before the strikes hit the village, which lies north of the Litani River. The NNA said Israeli warplanes "launched a series of heavy strikes... less than an hour after" the warning, AFP reported. Al Jazeera said Israel had also attacked the town a day earlier without giving any warning.

Lebanese Civil Defence teams searched through the rubble of what Al Jazeera's Obaida Hitto, reporting from the southern city of Tyre, called a "massive set of air strikes that destroyed a residential neighbourhood", with buildings completely flattened. Hitto reported strikes that killed and injured people in at least six other locations across southern Lebanon on Friday, including women and children among the victims. Israel also demolished houses, a convent and a school on Friday, Al Jazeera reported.

Both sides' claims, attributed

Israel says its attacks target the pro-Iran Lebanese group Hezbollah, while Al Jazeera reported that a large proportion of those killed have been civilians. Hezbollah said it continued attacks on Israeli forces and vehicles inside Lebanon on Friday, saying it targeted a Merkava tank and other vehicles, as well as soldiers in Sour (Tyre). Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon, which it calls a buffer zone. None of the battlefield claims from either side could be independently verified in the reports reviewed.

Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health Emergency Operations Center reported on Friday that 2,618 people have been killed and 8,094 wounded since hostilities began on March 2 — the day Hezbollah began attacking Israel again after the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28 and the killing of Iran's then Supreme Leader. The toll keeps climbing despite the US-brokered ceasefire announced on April 17.

Lebanon is wired directly into the wider war: ending hostilities in Lebanon has been one of Tehran's stated conditions in the US-Iran negotiations, which hit a new wall on Friday when President Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal. Read: Trump rejects Iran's latest peace proposal sent via Pakistan

What happens next

With at least 28 killed on Thursday and 12 more on Friday, the ceasefire in Lebanon is under its heaviest strain in weeks. Rescue teams were still searching rubble in Habboush on Friday, so the toll may rise. Whether Washington presses Israel to halt the southern campaign — and whether Hezbollah keeps firing back — will decide if the April ceasefire survives alongside the frozen US-Iran talks.