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Israeli Forces Carry Out Demolition Blasts, Artillery Shelling Across Southern Lebanon
“the U.S. representative to the United Nations will arrive to Lebanon on Sunday.”
“The Zionist enemy continued on Sunday, November 15, 2026, its violations and attacks in South Lebanon, carrying out more airstrikes.”
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Israeli forces conducted demolition blasts and artillery shelling across southern Lebanon targeting multiple towns. Airstrikes and artillery shelling continued in southern Lebanon, hitting towns including Kfartebnit, Al-Qantara, and Al-Khiam.
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Demolitions and shelling
Israeli occupation forces carried out demolition blasts and artillery shelling across southern Lebanon from midnight onward, with demolition blasts reported in Baraachit, in the direction of Kounine, and in Zawtar Al-Sharqiyah. Israeli artillery shelling targeted the outskirts of Baraachit and Wadi Al-Hujeir, as well as the town of Khiyam, while shelling was also reported in Al-Khraibeh and in the area between Mayfadoun and Zawtar Al-Sharqiyah. Israeli war jets flew over Beirut at low altitude while air raids targeted the two towns of Kfartebnit and Al-Qantara, and the Israeli gunfire targeted Al-Khiam and Zawtar Al-Sharqiyeh.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said “Israeli” attacks have martyred 4,390 people and wounded 12,429 since March 2, and it said the total number of martyrs since October 2023 reached 8,957 as of November 5. The attacks continued despite a ceasefire that took effect on June 20 and a US-brokered framework agreement reached on June 26 that provides for a gradual withdrawal of the IOF from areas entered in south Lebanon and the deployment of the Lebanese Army in those areas.
Towns hit, roads built
Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on Kfar Tibnit in the Nabatieh district, while an Israeli D9 bulldozer and several vehicles advanced towards the outskirts of Kfar Shuba in the Azrael area in the Hasbaya district.
Israeli forces carried out a two-stage demolition in the village of Hadatha in the Bint Jbeil district, and an Israeli Merkava tank targeted the same village, while Israeli artillery shelling targeted Mayfadoun, Kfar Tibnit, Haddatha, Shaqra, and Braasheet.
Israeli artillery shelling also targeted Wadi Hujeir toward Qussair, Wadi Slouqi, the plain of Khiam, Majdal Selm, Zibqine, and Mansouri, while Israeli gunfire targeted Zawtar Sharqiyeh and the area of Hammam in Khiam.
The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon announced that the U.S. representative to the United Nations will arrive to Lebanon on Sunday, and it said the representative will meet with senior Lebanese government officials to discuss U.S. support for the implementation of the Trilateral Framework.
Satellite imagery cited in reports this month indicated that “Israel” is constructing a network of military roads and outposts stretching approximately 90 kilometers across south Lebanon.
Agriculture losses and displacement
Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon caused wide damage to the agricultural sector, as Israeli forces swept away stretches of agricultural land, occupied others, and deprived thousands of families of their livelihoods.
In the town of Shabra, Abu Fares said he could no longer reach his land and harvest its fruits after it was swept by Israeli forces, and Umm Nader said: “We went to fetch olives, we brought firewood,” adding: “What should I see? A red land, and these olives on the ground.”
The damages were described as unprecedented in the agricultural sector, and Lebanon’s Minister of Agriculture Nizar Al-Hani told Al Arabiya TV that 22.5% of Lebanon’s agricultural land was affected by the war, equivalent to about 56,000 hectares.
The war’s repercussions included more than 1,700 farms destroyed and about 25,000 beehives damaged, while the losses to the agricultural sector were estimated at about half a billion dollars.
UN data cited in one report said about 304,500 people remain displaced outside their home regions amid widespread damage to villages and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.