Sahin Demir and Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n
29 August 2026\u2022Update: 29 August 2026<\/p>\n
Israel continued its attacks across several areas of southern Lebanon on Saturday, using artillery shelling, airstrikes, explosions and deliberately setting fires, with most of the attacks concentrated in Nabatieh province.<\/p>\n
Two explosions occurred near the outskirts of Aita al-Jabal in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency (NNA), which provided no immediate information about casualties or damage<\/p>\n
An Israeli drone later carried out a strike on the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa at around 8.55 am local time (0555GMT), NNA reported.<\/p>\n
A second Israeli drone strike targeted the same town at around 9.40 am local time (0640GMT), according to the agency.<\/p>\n
Separately, Israeli forces set fire to homes in the southern Lebanese town of Beit Yahoun, NNA said.<\/p>\n
Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes an area between the Al-Deir neighborhood and the Ali al-Taher hills on the northern outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, reported NNA.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael has no intention of withdrawing from the Ali al-Taher hills despite US pressure to continue its withdrawal,\u201d the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported Saturday.<\/p>\n
The position runs counter to a US-sponsored negotiation process aimed at completing the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n
Israeli warplanes also carried out an airstrike between the towns of Zawtar al-Gharbiyah and Qaaqaiyat al-Jisr, according to NNA.<\/p>\n
In the Bint Jbeil district, the agency said Israeli artillery shelled the town of Haris. Warplanes also launched two airstrikes on the town of Al-Mansouri in the Tyre district.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bThere were no immediate reports of casualties from the new attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sahin Demir and Rania Abushamala 29 August 2026\u2022Update: 29 August 2026 Israel continued its attacks across several areas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-599833","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\/599833","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=599833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}