Renewed fighting in southern Lebanon strains U.S.-backed ceasefire

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Renewed fighting in southern Lebanon strains U.S.-backed ceasefire

In war-weary Lebanon, Israeli strikes have intensified in response to Hezbollah drone attacks.

September 8, 2026 at 5:44 p.m. EDT

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*Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli controlled explosion near al-Mansouri, Lebanon, on Tuesday. (Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images)*

By

Suzan Haidamous

,

Rachel Chason

,

Mohamad El Chamaa

and

Lior Soroka

BEIRUT — Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have escalated in recent days, straining a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that could be key to a broader peace deal between Washington and Tehran, and sparking fear in Lebanon of an even larger-scale Israeli military operation ahead of Israel’s elections next month.

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