Esra Tekin<\/p>\n
19 July 2026\u2022Update: 19 July 2026<\/p>\n
The Israeli army continued attacks on areas in southern Lebanon on Saturday, with airstrikes, artillery shelling, explosions, sound-bomb attacks and tree-cutting operations that caused injuries, according to the Lebanese official National News Agency.<\/p>\n
It said Israel shelled the town of Haris in the Bint Jbeil district of the Nabatieh Governorate, leaving an unspecified number of people injured.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces cut down all trees in the same district that were planted along roadsides in the city of Bint Jbeil, according to the agency.<\/p>\n
In the Tyre district of the South Governorate, Israeli forces fired several missiles early Saturday at neighborhoods in the town of Mansouri, near the Bayt al-Sayyad farm.<\/p>\n
An Israeli drone also dropped two sound bombs on the al-Mashaa neighborhood between the towns of Majdal Zoun and Mansouri, while Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on the same area, the agency reported.<\/p>\n
In the Nabatieh district, the Israeli army carried out a large explosion on the outskirts of the town of Zawtar al-Sharqiya, according to the official news agency.<\/p>\n
An Israeli drone also struck the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, while Israeli warplanes bombed the town of Kfar Tibnit in the same district late Friday.<\/p>\n
The Israeli army claimed it targeted a cell of Hezbollah drone operators in southern Lebanon, without specifying the location of the attack.<\/p>\n
The military alleged that the strike followed the detection of a drone that it said had been launched near Israeli forces.<\/p>\n
It added that the air force carried out a rapid strike targeting members of the cell in what it described as an effort to \u201celiminate the threat\u201d they allegedly posed to troops.<\/p>\n
Earlier Saturday, Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry announced that the death toll from the Israeli assault on the country had risen to 4,328, with 12,227 wounded since March 2.<\/p>\n
Israel continues its attacks on Lebanon despite the two sides signing a US-sponsored \u201cframework agreement\u201d June 26. The agreement provides for a phased Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory, beginning with two pilot areas.<\/p>\n
The attacks also follow talks in Rome that addressed the start of an Israeli troop withdrawal from two areas in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Israel occupies areas of southern Lebanon, some of which it has held for decades, while others were seized during the 2023-2024 war and the assault that began last March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esra Tekin 19 July 2026\u2022Update: 19 July 2026 The Israeli army continued attacks on areas in southern Lebanon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-548256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}