Lebanon Prime Minister: ‘No end in sight’ to Israeli attacks

<article data-history-node-id="437271" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-prime-minister-no-end-sight-israeli-attacks" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-prime-minister-no-end-sight-israeli-attacks" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Lebanon Prime Minister: ‘No end in sight’ to Israeli attacks</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="line-height:1.38">Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that there is no end in sight to the war which has already led to the displacement of a million people, as Israel’s latest bombardment on the country enters its second month.</p> <p>“Lebanon has become a victim of war – one whose outcomes and end date no one can predict,” Salam announced on Thursday, Reuters reports.</p> <p>He condemned Israel's “significant expansion in the occupation of Lebanese territories”, calling the talk about creating a Greater Israel which extends into Lebanon to create a buffer zone for security “dangerous”.</p> <p>Israel launched attacks on Thursday on the towns of Sultaniyeh, Aita al Jabal, al-Jumayjimah and Tibnin in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s correspondents on the ground report.</p> <p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said that the more than 600,000 people who live in the southern territories up to the Litani River will not be able to come back.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Nour Al Badran,10, and her family members at a temporary encampment for displaced people in Beirut, Lebanon on 1 April 2026 (Reuters/Raghed Waked)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b5d1598f-4565-4612-99d1-240497cc80b4" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2026-04-02T091028Z_286075675_RC2AGKA7ICVC_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-LEBANON-ISRAEL-2.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Nour Al Badran,10, and her family members at a temporary encampment for displaced people in Beirut, Lebanon on 1 April 2026 (Reuters/Raghed Waked)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Nour Al Badran,10, and her family members at a temporary encampment for displaced people in Beirut, Lebanon on 1 April 2026 (Reuters/Raghed Waked)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>