Israeli Air Raids Shell Southern Lebanon, While Hezbollah Repels Incursion Into Bint Jbeil

Israeli air raids and artillery shelling targeted towns across southern Lebanon, including Sahmar east of Lebanon, Yater, Kafra, and Kafr Reman, Mashrif Farm, Zibdeen, and al-Sir al-Gharbi, while Hezbollah members repelled an Israeli incursion into Bint Jbeil, according to the official Lebanese National News Agency (NNA).

“South Lebanon Israeli airstrikes targeted on Monday evening the town of Sahmar, east of Lebanon, as well as the towns of Yater, Kafra, and Kafr Reman, Mashrif Farm, Zibdeen, and al-Sir al-Gharbi in south Lebanon”

Masrawy

The NNA said battles continued fiercely in Bint Jbeil for the fifth day, with Hezbollah repelling invading Israeli forces and clashes at point-blank range inflicting casualties on the enemy, especially near the municipal stadium and the Al-Baraka neighborhood.

Masrawy

Israeli bulldozers entered Naqoura in south Lebanon and began demolishing a number of houses and some landmarks of the town, the NNA reported, while Israeli artillery shelled the ancient fortress in Tyre, which is among UNESCO-listed archaeological sites.

In parallel, an airstrike on Bustan in south Lebanon this morning resulted in the deaths of several Syrian workers, and a young man was martyred in an airstrike on Nabatieh al-Fouqa, according to Masrawy.

Lieutenant Colonel Nidal Abu Zaid, a military and strategic expert, said the repeated Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon and the city of Tyre in particular reflects a trend toward broad demographic change, not only military objectives.

He argued that targeting bridges over the Litani River alongside displacement operations signals an organized effort to redraw the population map in the south, where he said the region accounts for about one-fifth of Lebanon's population and roughly one-tenth of its geographic area.

Al-Jazeera Net

Abu Zaid linked the Tyre bombing to an escalation in which Hezbollah intensified its rocket and drone strikes on Israeli sites while Tel Aviv responded with raids targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.

In his reading, the bombing pattern focuses on densely populated areas tied to Hezbollah's social base, reinforcing the hypothesis of population displacement as residents received repeated warnings to evacuate wide areas.

In Sour, Israeli aircraft bombed several neighborhoods in northern Sour and nearby towns on Friday, hours after an evacuation order targeted several villages, while south of the city the Lebanese army was forced to withdraw from a position in Mansouri on the coast, according to Today and L'Orient Today.

“Military and strategic expert Lieutenant Colonel Nidal Abu Zaid said that the repeated Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon, and the city of Tyre in particular, falls not only within military objectives but also reflects a trend toward broad demographic change in the region”

Al-Jazeera Net

The director of Hiram Hospital in Sour, Salman Aidibi, told the correspondent that the strike on the building adjacent to “Najda shaabiya” “shook the entire establishment,” and he said two maintenance workers and four nurses were injured by glass shards, with a ceiling collapsing in one corridor.

The Health Ministry condemned the “persistence of the Israeli enemy in its criminal approach against medical and rescue teams,” saying the Israeli army “directly targeted the primary healthcare center in the city of Sour, reducing it to rubble,” and it said six members of the hospital's medical staff were injured.

Hezbollah claimed it set an ambush with an explosive device for an Israeli patrol trying to infiltrate at the hydraulic pumping station north of Taybeh and then shelled these forces, “causing casualties,” while the Israeli army announced the death of Sergeant Negev Dagan, 20, “fell in combat in southern Lebanon.”