Israeli Airstrikes Hit Lebanese Towns From Nabatieh to Beqaa During Washington Talks

Lebanon remained focused on the “third meeting in Washington between the Lebanese and Israeli negotiators” under “high-level American auspices,” even as the same source described “Israeli escalation against civilians and villages and homes in the south and the western Beqaa.”

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The negotiations were staged at the U.S. State Department, where the “first meeting of the Lebanese-American-Israeli delegations was held” at “4:00 p.m. Beirut time” and ended “around 6:30 p.m.”

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In parallel, Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardment targeted Lebanese towns “from Nabatieh to Beqaa,” including “Israeli artillery fire on the town of Zoutr al-Sharqiya” and airstrikes hitting “the outskirts of Baalbek in eastern Beqaa.”

The second source also said the escalation included “two consecutive strikes on the town of Froun in the south,” and raids reached “the town of Kfarsir in Nabatieh” and “the town of Sahmar in western Beqaa.”

Israel’s threats toward Lebanon escalated after Tel Aviv said civilians were injured in a kamikaze drone attack targeting “the Ras al-Naqoura area,” and the Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority quoted a senior official saying Hezbollah’s targeting “constitutes crossing red lines.”

The same source reported that Channel 12 said Israel began supplying forces operating in Lebanon with “barbed-wire nets as a precautionary measure to confront explosive drones.”

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On the ground, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that “Ali al-Taher heights, Upper Nabatieh, Kafr Tabnit, Jebshit, and Meifdon” in south Lebanon were subjected to “heavy Israeli artillery shelling,” and that an Israeli drone raid struck “the town of Hadatha.”

The Al Jazeera report also said Israeli artillery strikes targeted “Arnoun, Yahmor al-Shqif, Zuṭar al-Sharqi, and Zibdin,” while raids hit “Harouf and Faroun,” and it added that Hezbollah announced operations including a kamikaze drone strike on Ras al-Naqoura and an attack on a Humvee in “the town of Tayr Harfa.”

As negotiations continued in Washington, the Al Jazeera report said the humanitarian toll reached “alarming levels,” with UNICEF stating that “200 children have been killed in Lebanon since the start of the aggression in March.”

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The same source said children were “still paying the greatest price despite the fragile truce,” and it described Hezbollah’s Loyalty to the Resistance bloc criticizing the talks in Washington as Israel “exploiting these sessions to continue its crimes and widen its occupation.”

In the Washington track described by جريدة اللواء, Lebanese insistence centered on “the extension and stabilization of the ceasefire and the withdrawal of the occupation from the occupied villages,” alongside “the return of southern residents to their villages” and “the control of the entire south by legitimate forces.”

The same source said the Israeli side focused on “reaching a peace agreement with Lebanon after disarming Hizballah,” while the American side knew it was “premature to reach a peace agreement” and pointed to steps first, including a “letter of intent” over “the two negotiation days.”