Israel kills 8 in Lebanon, a day after Trump said Israel and Hezbollah will de-escalate

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including a father and his two children, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting. Hezbollah continued launching dozens of projectiles and drones toward Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon and civilians in Israel.

Israel threatened on Monday to strike Beirut’s southern suburbs, causing panic in the Lebanese capital as thousands fled. Israeli forces are making their deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years, but Beirut has been mostly spared.

Trump later announced after a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicating with the Lebanese militant group through mediators that “there will be no Troops going to Beirut." But there was little change, with Israel and Hezbollah continuing the intensity of attacks.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said during a defense conference on Tuesday that Israel previously refrained from attacking Beirut out of deference for negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, which wants a ceasefire deal in the Iran war to end fighting in Lebanon, too.

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed Trump in a phone call late Monday that Israel will attack Beirut's southern suburbs if Hezbollah continues targeting northern Israel, Katz said.

A second round of talks between Israel and Lebanon is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, where Lebanese negotiators are set to seek a full ceasefire that will prevent future attacks. The talks that began in April were the first in more than three decades between the countries, which have no formal diplomatic relations. Hezbollah has rejected direct talks, counting on pressure from Iran.

The fighting in Lebanon presents a major obstacle to the emerging deal to extend the ceasefire in the Iran war. Despite a Washington-brokered ceasefire reached in April, Israel and Hezbollah have continued to exchange strikes after Israel targeted areas in Lebanon, saying it was for self-defense.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported Tuesday that an Israeli drone strike hit a car on the road linking the southern town of Marjayoun with the city of Nabatiyeh, killing James Karam, a dentist from the nearby Christian town of Qlayaa, along with his daughter and son.

The Lebanese army said two soldiers were lightly wounded when a separate drone targeted them on a road outside the city.

A drone strike on the village of Jibchit killed two Syrians who worked at a plant nursery, the agency reported, while another on the nearby village of Toul killed two people. A third strike hit a car near the village of Harouf, killing one person. The Israeli military said it wasn't aware of any Israeli strikes in that area.

NNA also reported that an Israeli airstrike on Monday killed six in the southern village of Marwaniyeh.

Hezbollah said Tuesday its fighters fired anti-tank missiles on Israeli troops who were pushing into the southern village of Hadatha, about 7 kilometers (4 miles) from the Israeli border. Sirens sounded in several areas in northern Israel, the military said in a statement, adding that “a suspicious aerial target" was identified in the area in which Israeli soldiers are operating in southern Lebanon, but that no injuries were reported.

The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has killed 3,433 people in Lebanon and displaced more than 1 million people. According to Netanyahu’s office, at least 27 Israeli soldiers and a defense contractor have been killed in or near southern Lebanon. Two civilians have also been killed in northern Israel.

Israel’s military said late Monday that a soldier was killed in southern Lebanon. It added that seven more soldiers were wounded in the incident, three of them severely.

Hezbollah’s use of hard-to-detect fiber-optic drones has been deadly for the Israeli military, which is struggling to respond.

This version corrects to say Hezbollah fired at Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon.

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike that hit Qlaileh village, as it seen from the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Rescue workers use an excavator, as they search for victims under the rubble of a building that was hit Monday in an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

A man looks through the shattered windows of the damaged Jabal Amel Hospital, following Monday's Israeli airstrike that was hit a nearby building, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

A sick boy lies in a damaged room in the Jabal Amel Hospital, following Monday's Israeli airstrike that hit a nearby building, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

A nurse looks through a shattered window of the Jabal Amel Hospital into a destroyed building that was hit Monday in an Israeli airstrike, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Staff-Sergeant Michael Tyukin, who was killed in a drone attack in southern Lebanon, during his funeral in Ashkelon, Israel, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Rescuers work at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a building and damaged a hospital in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo)

PARIS (AP) — Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva thumped veteran Sorana Cirstea 6-0, 6-3 at the French Open on Tuesday and set up a semifinal against an Ukrainian rival.

Andreeva will take on the winner of the all-Ukrainian contest between Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk, who is undefeated on clay this season.

When Kostyuk beat Andreeva in the Madrid final a month ago, she didn’t shake her hand at the net. That’s been the protocol for Ukrainian players with opponents from Russia and its ally Belarus since the war started.

“Well, for me it doesn’t matter who I play,” Andreeva said when asked about the challenges of playing a Ukrainian player in the context of the four-year ongoing war between the neighboring countries.

“I really try to play against the ball that is coming at me," she added. "Usually it doesn’t matter to me who I’m playing against, so I’m trying to really focus on the game and on the game plan that I have to use on the court.”

After a week of hot weather, rain arrived in Paris and play started under the closed roof of Court Philippe-Chatrier. Competing in the quarterfinals for the first time in 17 years, Cirstea struggled to find her rhythm against her 19-year-old rival.

The 36-year-old veteran from Romania, playing the final season of her career, immediately dropped her serve. She was broken again in her next service game as the eighth-seeded Andreeva punished a weak delivery with a forehand return winner to open a 3-0 lead.

The Russian was in total control, securing another break of serve before comfortably holding to wrap up the opening set.

Cirstea, seeded 18th, finally got on the board by holding for 1-0 in the second set when Andreeva’s backhand sailed long. She then began to move Andreeva around more effectively with greater variety in her shot-making, while cutting down on unforced errors.

But Andreeva’s deep, accurate groundstrokes and charges to the net took a toll on Cirstea, who dropped her serve again in the fifth game. She managed to break back in the next game, yet the improvement was short-lived, as Andreeva broke again twice to close out the match.

“I felt like it was one of my best matches so far this tournament,” said Andreeva, two years after reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal. “Super happy to be back in semis.”

In men's play, up-and-coming Rafael Jodar of Spain faces a tall order against second-seeded Alexander Zverev. Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic takes on Joao Fonseca of Brazil in the night session.

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Russia's Mirra Andreeva reacts during the quarterfinal tennis match against Romania's Sorana Cirstea at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Romania's Sorana Cirstea returns to Russia's Mirra Andreeva during the quarterfinal tennis match at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Russia's Mirra Andreeva retruns to Romania's Sorana Cirstea during the quarterfinal tennis match at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)