Nearly 9,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023

For three years, the people of Lebanon have lived beneath the weight of a war that diplomacy has repeatedly failed to end. Since October 2023, Israeli military operations have claimed nearly 9,000 lives and wounded more than 30,000 others — a toll that has accelerated sharply in 2026, even as two ceasefire agreements were signed and broken. In the long history of conflicts where the powerful and the displaced speak past one another, Lebanon's south stands again as a place where the arithmetic of suffering outpaces the language of resolution.