Plumes of smoke rose above the town of Arnoun in Lebanon's Nabatieh province after an Israeli air raid on April 26, 2026. AFP
With the three-week extension of the truce between Israel and Hezbollah announced by Donald Trump on Thursday, April 23, the Secours Populaire Libanais hospital in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, had planned to resume normal operations and reopen all its departments on Monday, April 27. That will not happen. The hospital staff has once again been put on maximum emergency alert after a series of intense Israeli bombings in the area on April 26, despite the ceasefire.
"It was a very difficult day. What comes next remains completely uncertain," Mona Abouzeid, the hospital director, said by phone on Sunday evening. The hospital received two dead people and eight wounded in the emergency room, which never closed.
At least 14 people, including two children and two women, were killed and 37 others wounded in this latest escalation in southern Lebanon, according to Beirut. It was the deadliest day since the truce took effect on April 17.
Order to evacuate seven villages
