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Airstrikes hit southern Lebanon
Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday morning bombed the Ali al-Taher heights and the outskirts of the town of Kfarman in Nabatieh Governorate in southern Lebanon as tensions on the southern front rise, with footage showing tongues of flame and rising smoke from the targeted sites.
“bombed on Wednesday morning two targets: the Ali al-Taher heights”
The National News Agency reported Israeli violations in several Lebanese areas, including the flight of warplanes and drones, artillery shelling that hit the outskirts of southern towns, and an Israeli military force crossing into the surroundings of Shab‘a.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun stressed the need to stop Israeli attacks, calling for an end to blowing up and destroying homes and property and bulldozing them and targeting civilians during a meeting at Baabda Palace with Canadian International Development Minister Randy Boissonnier.
The escalation has continued despite Lebanon and Israel signing, under American sponsorship, on June 26, 2026, an “Framework Format” agreement, and Lebanese authorities said that since March 2 it has resulted in the martyrdom of 4,346 people and 12,301 others injured, with the displacement of more than one million people.
In parallel, Al Jazeera Net described a dense wave of Israeli artillery shelling and air raids at dawn on Saturday that included phosphorus shells and targeted residential neighborhoods and forested areas in Sidon (Saida) district and Bent Jbeil.
Aoun, Berri, and Hezbollah
Lebanese President Michel Aoun reiterated Lebanon’s commitment to implementing the “Framework Agreement” and pressing Israel to adhere to its terms, while affirming that the Lebanese state will oversee reconstruction in the south after Israeli forces withdraw and the Lebanese army deploys to the international border.
In a separate account, Al-Talfaziyya Al-Arabiyya said Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berri told a delegation from the American Working Group for Lebanon that the state is primarily relying on American support to compel Israel to stop its attacks, adding that President Trump “alone is able to compel Israel to halt the war and withdraw.”
Dawn reported that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called Saturday’s strikes a “clear message” aimed at the negotiations and American efforts to implement the framework agreement, while Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam urged Israel to halt the “extremely dangerous” escalation.
Hezbollah said the Israeli attacks on Lebanon would be met with an “appropriate” response and rejected direct negotiations, while also warning that Lebanese authorities “must not insist on continuing along the humiliating path of direct negotiations and providing the enemy with free concessions.”
Dawn also said the Israeli military described the early morning strikes in Nabatieh and Ansar as retaliation for an attack by Hezbollah on its troops inside an agreed security zone, a strip of territory about 10 kilometres deep inside Lebanon where Israeli forces operate.
Destruction and negotiations
As the framework agreement under American auspices remains in place on paper, multiple sources described continued Israeli operations across southern Lebanon, including phosphorus shelling and airstrikes on the Ali al-Taher high plateau at the northern outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fouqa and shelling in the Tyre ( sour ) district.
“not a single house remained undestroyed in Bayt al-Siyad”
Anadolu Ajansı said Israeli shelling targeted areas in the Nabatieh and Tyre districts with phosphorus shells at dawn Saturday, and it reported that not a single house remained undestroyed in Bayt al-Siyad due to continuous bombardment and shelling there.
Antiwar reported that two people were killed today in the southern Lebanese town of Mayfadoun after they came upon unexploded ordinance left behind in a recent Israeli operation against the area, and it said Israeli strikes also caused a fire in the nearby town of Mansouri.
In the same period, Ici Beyrouth said the Israeli army claimed that soldiers of the Kfir Brigade, under the command of the 91st Division, spotted suspects who crossed the boundary of the 'security zone' at Baraachit before entering a building, prompting an aviation strike, while no casualty figures were provided at the moment.
Le Monde.fr framed the broader impact as a “race between preserving memory and destruction,” describing Adib Farhat evacuating some of his Arab Salim archives from the southern locality where he has lived since March 2, and saying that more than 20 border villages have been razed since an initial truce in April.