Zionist Style "Cease Fire": Israel angles for permanent occupation in Lebanon While Still Attacking Gaza

[S. E. Anderson]

Israel angles for permanent occupation in Lebanon

Lebanese soldiers in front of destroyed houses in the village of Dibbin, southern Lebanon. Israeli

forces withdrew from the village on Thursday.

Drop Site Daily: June 5, 2026

Palestine

Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza Seafront Cafe, Killing Two and Injuring 12 Amid Fragile Ceasefire.

• Israeli attacks continue across Gaza: Israeli forces continued ceasefire violations across Gaza Thursday night and into early Friday, killing at least two Palestinians and wounding dozens. Israeli strikes hit a displacement tent, a gas station, residential buildings, civilian vehicles, and a bicycle, while naval gunboats opened fire on the Gaza City coastline, Palestine Online reported.

  • Israeli forces bombed a tent west of Khan Younis at 4:07 a.m., killing an 18-year-old and wounding a sleeping grandfather, according to Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha.

  • Another person was killed and others wounded in a strike on the Isleem Petroleum Station near Al-Sha’abiyya junction in Gaza City, five were wounded in a strike on a residential building in Tel al-Hawa, and Israeli drones struck a civilian vehicle on Al-Quds Street with three missiles before reportedly pursuing the fleeing driver with further strikes.

• “The war is not over”: Gaza grandfather whose daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren were burned alive rejects claims of ceasefire: Ibrahim Labad’s family was burned to death after an Israeli strike set their Gaza City apartment ablaze shortly after midnight Thursday. He told Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed that claims the war has ended are a trick. “I only saw myself and my wife. Everything else was darkness and fire,” Labad said, describing being pulled out through a small opening under the door before learning five members of his family had been killed and several others wounded. Nine-year-old Hala Labad survived the strike as the sole remaining member of her immediate family. “Every day there are martyrs. Every single day. Everywhere in Gaza there are martyrs,” Labad said. “What war ended? It only ended for one side.”

• Iranian foreign minister reaffirms support for Palestinians: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke by phone on Thursday with Khalil Al-Hayya, head of Hamas in Gaza, covering developments in Palestine, Lebanon, and the broader region, according to a Hamas statement. Al-Hayya praised Iran’s insistence on a simultaneous cessation of war on all fronts and briefed Araghchi on conditions in Gaza, including Israel obstructing an implementation of the ceasefire while reaffirming the resistance factions’ commitment to continuing until Palestinian national objectives are achieved.

• Hamas arrives in Cairo ahead of new round of ceasefire talks: A Hamas delegation led by Khalil Al-Hayya, the group’s leader in Gaza, arrived in Cairo on Friday ahead of a new round of negotiations expected to begin on Saturday and continue for several days. Hamas said the talks with Egyptian officials and mediators would focus on completing implementation of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, stopping “repeated Zionist aggressions” on the Gaza Strip, and establishing mechanisms for moving to the second phase of the deal. The delegation is also expected to hold meetings with Palestinian factions to coordinate a unified national position.

• Gaza flotilla volunteers held 11 days in Libyan “black site” enter dry hunger and water strike: Ten volunteers with the Global Sumud Flotilla, detained in Benghazi, Libya for 11 days while attempting to reach Gaza, are in deteriorating condition after entering a dry hunger and water strike on Monday. The group has been held without access to lawyers, embassies, or independent medical teams. In a secretly placed phone call, one detainee described their location as “a black site similar to a CIA black site, a prison that has no name.” The organizations are calling on the Argentine government (one member is an Argentine national), the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the foreign ministries of all nationalities involved to intervene immediately to prevent irreversible harm.

• Ireland bans Ben Gvir and Smotrich from entering the country: Ireland announced a ban on Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, barring them from entering the country over their anti-Palestinian statements and conduct toward Gaza flotilla activists, according to the Times of Israel. Irish Prime Minister, Micheal Martin, said last month that the two extremist ministers’ statements “essentially amount to a desire to see the elimination of Palestinians from Palestine.” Both ministers have previously been sanctioned by several EU countries for inciting extremist violence.

• Israel transfers Gaza doctor to solitary confinement: Israeli authorities transferred detained Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya to solitary confinement at Nafha Prison on June 3 following his legal team’s challenge to an extension of his detention, with his lawyer describing the move as punitive and saying it has left Abu Safiya without necessary medical treatment. Healthcare Workers Watch reports that at least 83 Palestinian healthcare workers are currently held by Israel, including 75 from Gaza.

• Palestinian rights group says May was deadliest month of 2026 in Gaza: May 2026 recorded the highest death toll for any month of 2026, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights announced Thursday, with 119 killed, including 19 children and 10 women. Women, children, and the elderly accounted for roughly 30% of Israel’s victims in May.

• Israeli forces shoot two Palestinians in Hebron: Israeli forces shot two Palestinians—injuring one seriously—when they attempted to access their land near Hebron, as armed settlers ploughed the property for a second consecutive day, raised Israeli flags, and blocked roads with earth mounds and stones to prevent residents from reaching their fields, Wafa reported. Settlers also assaulted a third Palestinian in the area, leaving him wounded.

Lebanon

First responders attend to a burning vehicle targeted by an Israeli drone attack in the southern Lebanese

city of Nabatieh on Friday.

• Casualty count: At least 3,558 people have been killed, and 10,870 wounded, in Israeli strikes across Lebanon since March 2, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

• Israeli strikes kill eight in Lebanon on Friday:

  • At least eight people were killed in Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon on Friday, according to the state’s National News Agency. Four people were killed in multiple Israeli drone strikes across areas in the south. Two men were killed in separate incidents in Nabatieh and Kfar Roumman after Israeli drones struck their vehicles. In two other strikes, Israeli drones targeted motorcycles in Bint Jbeil and in Deir al-Zahrani, killing one person in each attack.

  • An Israeli strike on Doueir destroyed a residential building and killed one person, leaving another in critical condition. In Habboush, two separate strikes killed two men, one of whom was a physician.

  • A strike on Qalawiya Tower killed one person and wounded another, and Israeli aircraft bombed Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Zibdine, Shoukin, and Jibchit. Near Tyre, warplanes struck close to Jabal Amel Hospital targeting the Bank Audi area, while Israeli forces carried out a demolition operation in Khiam.

  • The Israeli military also issued forced displacement orders on Friday to residents of nine towns in southern Lebanon.

• Parties continue to respond to Wednesday’s “ceasefire agreement”:

  • Israeli Defense Minister hails Lebanon ceasefire for codifying Israel’s right to maintain a presence: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that the U.S.-brokered Lebanon ceasefire declaration includes “unequivocal” support for Hezbollah’s disarmament, the removal of Hezbollah forces from south of the Litani River, continued IDF presence in Lebanon, as well as a “freedom of action for Israel.” Katz described the agreement as an “expression of the reality” Israel’s military has created in Lebanon and said it could eventually lead to a formal “peace” agreement with the Lebanese state.

  • Lebanese parliament speaker rejects “booby-trapped” ceasefire, says Hezbollah withdrawal contingent on Israeli pullback: Nabih Berri, speaker of the Lebanese parliament and leader of Lebanon’s Amal Movement, the Shia ally of Hezbollah, criticized the U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan as a “hybrid agreement” that had been “booby-trapped” with conditions, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. Berri said the text could have been viewed positively had it simply called for an unconditional ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from occupied areas, but instead included provisions requiring “a complete cessation of fire by Hezbollah” and the withdrawal of its fighters from south of the Litani River. He said he would only accept two principles: “a full and comprehensive ceasefire without conditions” and a parallel withdrawal of both Hezbollah from south of the Litani and Israeli forces from territories they occupy. “The rest of the text is unjust and not worth mentioning,” he added.

  • IRGC demands full Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Quds Force issued separate statements Thursday declaring that no calm will be established in the region without a full Israeli withdrawal. The IRGC said its primary condition for accepting a ceasefire in the regional war has been a halt to hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon, and warned that the Lebanese people will not allow Israel to achieve through a forced agreement what it failed to achieve through war. “The enemy must immediately halt its attacks on the people of Lebanon, and swiftly withdraw to international borders by evacuating the occupied Lebanese territories, and recognize the territorial integrity of Lebanon,” the IRGC said, according to Press TV. “Our primary condition for accepting a ceasefire in the regional war has been a ceasefire across all fronts, including Lebanon.”

• Israel killed 91 medical workers of one health body in Lebanon: At least 91 medical personnel of the Islamic Health Authority in Lebanon have been killed as a result of Israeli attacks across the country, the organization said Friday via Al-Araby TV. Mahmoud Karki, a media official in the healthcare and emergency service provider affiliated with Hezbollah, said Israeli forces claim, without evidence, that ambulances are being used to transport weapons. Israel has killed over 125 health workers in Lebanon since March 2, according to the state’s Health Ministry.

• Hezbollah claims operations in southern Lebanon: Hezbollah claimed strikes on six Merkava tanks around Beaufort Castle using guided missiles and Ababil suicide drones, and the downing of four Israeli Hermes-450 surveillance drones using surface-to-air missiles. The group also claimed strikes on a command position around Beaufort Castle, a newly established logistical support center in Yahmar al-Shaqif, a site in Al-Adaisseh hit with a drone swarm, and repeated rocket and artillery barrages targeting Israeli soldiers and vehicle concentrations throughout the night.

  • Israeli captain killed by Hezbollah anti-tank missile in southern Lebanon: An Israeli Armored Corps captain in the 75th Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade was killed after a Hezbollah fighter fired a guided anti-tank missile at his tank north of the Litani River, according to Israeli military reports. The 21-year-old was the fourth Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon this week.   ///

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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s. e. anderson
author of The Black Holocaust for Beginners
"If WORK was good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor." (Haiti)
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