Israeli strikes killed 18 people in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, officials said, as the region entered another wave of violence ahead of possible ceasefire talks. The attacks came just one day after officials announced plans for potential negotiations involving Lebanon, Israel and the United States.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli strikes on a village near Sidon killed eight people and wounded nine others, including five critically, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The ministry later said Israeli attacks killed 10 people across the country’s south on Saturday, while state media reported raids on more than a dozen locations.
Officials said the dead included a Lebanese civil defence member and two paramedics from the Islamic Health Committee. The ministry accused Israel of systematically targeting emergency workers. In Sidon, hundreds joined a funeral procession for 13 State Security personnel killed a day earlier in Israeli strikes on Nabatiyeh. Mourners carried coffins draped in the Lebanese flag as grieving relatives wept openly during the procession.
Mourners in Sidon gathered to mourn 13 security personnel killed in an Israeli strike as the US and Iran gathered in Pakistan for peace talks https://t.co/gNOyWRAFKH pic.twitter.com/L6rplODYLC
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 11, 2026The war has killed more than 1,950 people in Lebanon. The Israeli military said it had struck more than 200 Hezbollah targets in the past 24 hours, including rocket launchers.
In Gaza, two Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven people and injured several others, health ministry officials said. One strike hit a police checkpoint in Bureij camp in central Gaza, killing at least six people, while another in Beit Lahiya killed at least one person. The Israeli military said it launched the Bureij strike after Hamas members approached the yellow line marking the part of Gaza occupied by Israel. It did not immediately comment on the Beit Lahiya strike.
ABC News' Marcus Moore reports at the site of a residential building in Beirut, Lebanon, where emergency workers are poring through rubble for those injured.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said more than 300 people were killed in a massive wave of Israeli strikes on Wednesday… pic.twitter.com/HevBiD5tSb
— ABC News (@ABC) April 11, 2026In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Israeli settlers shot dead 23-year-old Ali Majed Hamadneh during a raid on Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that armed settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, opened fire on residents. Israeli police and the military did not immediately respond.
The renewed violence came as Hezbollah again rejected direct negotiations with Israel. The Lebanese presidency said officials from Lebanon, Israel and the United States would meet next week in Washington to discuss a ceasefire and the start of negotiations under US auspices.
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah described the decision as a blatant violation of Lebanon’s national pact, constitution and laws. In Beirut, hundreds protested the planned talks, with some waving Hezbollah flags and Iranian symbols.
