Israel intensifies airstrikes artillery shelling across southern Lebanon
Israel intensifies airstrikes, artillery shelling across southern Lebanon
TEHRAN — Israeli forces escalated their unprovoked assault on southern Lebanon through the weekend and into Monday, combining high-explosive airstrikes with systematic home demolitions and brutal scorched-earth tactics.
The expanding offensive shreds the remnants of a United States-sponsored June framework agreement that Washington falsely presented as a mechanism for a gradual Israeli withdrawal.
Instead, American diplomacy has functioned as a reliable shield for continued aggression. The regime currently occupies ground more than ten kilometers inside Lebanese territory and shows absolute intent to remain.
The weekend violence centered heavily on the strategic Ali Al Taher heights east of Nabatieh.
Israeli fighter jets hammered the ridge and the adjacent Dabsha hills with heavy missiles, while artillery batteries fired illegal white phosphorus shells.
Some have indicated that these strikes may be preparing the battlefield for broader incursions to isolate the heights and create a so-called buffer zone.
Similar tactical maneuvers define the central sector. Ground units launched military operations targeting Beit Yahoun, Haddatha, and Ayta al-Jabal, villages that had escaped direct Israeli occupation prior to the supposed June truce.
On Monday, the sheer destruction accelerated across dozens of civilian areas.
In the border town of Houla, Israeli engineering units deployed heavy bulldozers to raze civilian infrastructure while artillery bombarded the adjacent Wadi al-Saloqi valley.
Further west, an Israeli quadcopter dropped sound bombs to terrorize residents in Al-Mansouri.
Israeli forces stationed in Khiam systematically detonated residential blocks in the town's western neighborhood near the Al-Mabarrat schools.
Deliberately ignited fires consumed nearby agricultural properties. Thick smoke blanketed the sky above the leveled homes.
Israeli warplanes simultaneously hit the Dawha neighborhood in Kfar Romman.
A drone strike there targeted a motorcycle, assassinating two individuals.
A massive explosion ripped through Haddatha following yet another deliberate military demolition.
Over 45 separate strikes punished the south within a 24-hour span, relentlessly tearing through Qanatra, Barachit, Mayfadoun, Mays al-Jabal, and Srobbine.
The human cost of this U.S.-backed war continues to compound. Lebanese health authorities count over 4,348 people killed and 12,307 wounded since the March offensive began, with more than a million displaced.
Israel routinely ignores United Nations resolutions demanding it leave occupied Palestinian and Syrian lands, instead applying the exact same expansionist violence to Lebanon.
source: tehrantimes.com