27 dead in Israeli strikes on Lebanon amid US-Iran peace talk

While negotiations for a peace agreement between Washington and Tehran continue, Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon have persisted. At least 27 people have been killed and 67 injured in strikes on various areas of the country over the past 24 hours, Lebanon's health ministry said on Monday, June 15.

In a statement posted on social media platform X, the ministry said Israeli forces carried out multiple airstrikes on several towns and residential areas in Lebanon. The injured have been admitted to various hospitals.

According to ministry data, a total of 3,783 people have been killed and 11,699 injured since the strikes began on March 2 this year .

Earlier on Sunday, an Israeli strike on the village of Ghobeiry in Beirut's southern suburbs — a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh — killed three people, including two women, and wounded 16 others .

An Israeli official said the strike targeted a Hezbollah "command and control centre" embedded in a civilian area, from which the group was "directing its terrorist activities" . However, a Lebanese security source said the strike hit an apartment, killing a Hezbollah member, along with his wife and another woman .

The Israeli military said the strike was in response to rocket fire from Lebanon toward northern Israel .

The Lebanese civil defence agency had earlier reported three dead and six wounded from the Ghobeiry strike . Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) also reported Israeli strikes on more than 20 locations in southern Lebanon, including the city of Nabatieh.

On Friday, the Israeli military said it had killed senior Hezbollah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq in a "precise strike" south of the Litani River in Lebanon . Daqduq was accused of involvement in the kidnapping and killing of five American soldiers in Iraq in 2007 .

The ongoing hostilities have raised tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border, further destabilising the region's security situation at a critical diplomatic juncture.