No Ceasefire in Lebanon As Cross-Border Attacks Persist
Despite international calls for de-escalation, Lebanon sees no ceasefire as hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces continue. Renewed shelling and air strikes fuel fears of a widening conflict, with civilian casualties rising daily.
A first responder emerges through the smoke at the site of an Israeli airstrike that struck an apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. | Photo: AP/Bilal Hussein
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A woman holds her dog as she walks past burned cars a day after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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Ali, 4, holds a toy horse next to the tent his family uses as a shelter after fleeing Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. | Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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A man sits next to an apartment building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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Displaced families extend their hands while waiting for donated food beside the tents they use as shelters after fleeing Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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A family picture sits in the rubble at the site of a destroyed building that was hit a day ahead in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Hussein Malla
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Displaced families extend their hands while waiting for donated food beside the tents they use as shelters after fleeing Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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A man stands next to an apartment building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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Men inspect the damage to their home destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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A Lebanese civil defense worker looks on as an excavator operates on the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Hussein Malla
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Israeli military mobile artillery unit fires towards southern Lebanon from northern Israel, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Ariel Schalit
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The daughter of Mohammad Zein al-Abedin Shehab, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier, appears emotional during his funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Hassan Ammar
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A woman carries a flag of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group during a ceremony marking the 40th day since the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2026. | Photo: AP/Vahid Salemi