An Israeli air strike hit a four-storey residential building in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon on 4 March 2026. Lebanon’s state news agency NNA said at least four people were killed and six were wounded. Rescue teams worked in the rubble to pull out families trapped under the collapsed building. According to NNA, the strike was part of an intensification of fighting on the Lebanese-Israeli border that began on Monday after Hezbollah used drones and missiles against Israel.
Since then, Hezbollah has fired further rockets, Israel has carried out waves of air strikes on Lebanese territory, and sent troops into the south of the country. Hezbollah said on 4 March that its fighters launched a barrage of rockets at a gathering of Israeli forces in the Metula area near the border. The Israeli military on the same day called on residents of 16 villages in Lebanon to evacuate, saying it was planning actions against Hezbollah. NNA also reported further Israeli strikes at dawn, including on a hotel and on an apartment in eastern Lebanon. Lebanon’s health ministry said on 3 March that since the start of the current escalation, Israeli strikes have killed at least 50 people and wounded 335.