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Israeli onslaught claims 12 lives, injures dozens across Lebanon
Iran rebukes regime’s massacre, ceasefire breaches
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman in a statement on Saturday condemned Israel’s new deadly attacks on Lebanon, calling for immediate action by the United Nations to stop the regime’s aggression against the Arab country.
According to Lebanon's Health Ministry, the Friday’s attacks in eastern and southern Lebanon killed 12 people and injured at least 25 others.
The ministry said 10 people lost their lives after a series of attacks on the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon on Friday evening.
A Hezbollah official said on Saturday that eight members of the group were among the victims.
The Israeli forces also launched an attack on the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Saida in the south, killing two people and wounding several others.
The refugee camp was the target of an Israeli attack last November, during which 13 people, including 11 children, were killed.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Saturday condemned the attacks, which took place days after the government announced that the army will start implementing the second phase of its plan to disarm Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
He called the attacks "a blatant act of aggression aimed at thwarting diplomatic efforts" by the United States and other nations to establish stability.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei condemned the attacks as blatant violations of Lebanon’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as the November 2024 ceasefire agreement. He emphasized the direct responsibility of the ceasefire guarantors, the US and France, for the crimes committed by the regime.
Baqaei also stressed the necessity of immediate action by the UN and its Security Council to fulfill their legal responsibilities to stop the Israeli military aggression.
Israel has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon despite a November 2024 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah.
In a report published by UNIFIL on December 12, 2025, more than 10,000 violations by Israeli armed forces have been documented since the ceasefire agreement, including air and ground aggressions that have breached Lebanese sovereignty.
According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, from October 8, 2023, until the ceasefire, the Israeli regime killed 4,000 Lebanese citizens, and wounded at least 17,000 others, most of them women and children.
Lebanon has filed a complaint with the UN about the repeated Israeli violations, urging the UN Security Council to push Israel to end its attacks and fully withdraw from the country.