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Israeli Airstrikes and Artillery Shelling Hit Towns in Four Districts of Southern Lebanon
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Israeli airstrikes and shelling hit towns across four districts of southern Lebanon. Kfar Tibnit and outskirts of Qantara targeted in recent strikes.
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Airstrikes across southern towns
Israeli airstrikes, artillery shelling, and explosions hit towns in four districts of southern Lebanon late Friday, including Nabatieh and South Governorates. The Lebanese News Agency reported that Israeli attacks spread across towns including Kufr Tbannit, Zotra al-Sharqiya, al-Khiyam, Hadatha, and Yaftir, while it reported no injuries for Yaftir. Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on Friday that hit Kufr Tabniyat and targeted the outskirts of al-Khiam, alongside bombing in Talusah and flares over the shore of al-Nakoura.
“Al-Manar correspondent reported an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kfar Tibnit in Nabatieh district.”
Al-Manar correspondent reported an Israeli airstrike on Kfar Tibnit in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon, and the strike was part of intensified attacks on Saturday. Al-Manar correspondent also reported Israeli artillery shelling targeting Haddatha, Kfar Shouba and the outskirts of Baraachit, with further artillery attacks targeting Khiam, Khraibeh, the area between Maifadoun and Zawtar Al-Sharqiyah, and the town of Al-Mansouri.
Ceasefire violations and drones
Lebanon was awaiting a visit by the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Michael Waldhaas to discuss the post-UNIFIL phase and what he would convey to Lebanese officials.
The southern situation continues to witness Israeli violations of the ceasefire, with shelling targeting Majdal Zoun, Biet al-Siad, Bani Hayyan, and Talouseh alongside clearance operations toward Shuqra.
An Israeli drone dropped a sonic bomb on the town of Yater, with no injuries reported.
Al-Manar TV Lebanon reported that an Israeli airstrike targeted the outskirts of Qantara, towards Al-Hujair Valley, in southern Lebanon.
The attacks came despite the “Framework Formula” agreement signed by Beirut and Tel Aviv with American mediation on June 26, calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories in exchange for the Lebanese army’s deployment there.
Political proposals and resistance
President General Jozef Aoun received the Special Representative of the United Nations and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, at Baabda Palace, and discussed the general situation in Lebanon, especially in the South in light of ongoing Israeli attacks. The Free Patriotic Movement began a tour of the five permanent member states of the Security Council and other relevant embassies to explain its proposal for its leader to form an international executive and security force in southern Lebanon. MP Hassan Az-Zein of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc argued that the resistance represents a vital need for Lebanon and its people, calling it an existential necessity for the country’s survival.
Az-Zein said, "as long as this enemy poses an existential threat to Lebanon, the resistance will remain," and it also quoted him saying, "the consensus will also include the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territories." A delegation from the Free Patriotic Movement, including Katli and Al-Toum, visited the Russian Federation Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Rodakov and presented the proposal, emphasizing the importance of avoiding a vacuum in southern Lebanon after UNIFIL’s mandate ends.