Ahmed Khalifa and Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n
01 November 2026\u2022Update: 01 November 2026<\/p>\n
The Israeli army is building new roads through mountains and valleys in southern Lebanon to connect its military positions, Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency (NNA) reported Saturday.<\/p>\n
The work spans the western and central sectors of southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have established military posts on occupied Lebanese territory, according to the agency.<\/p>\n
NNA said the construction was taking place alongside Israeli demolition operations in the area.<\/p>\n
The central sector includes the towns of Aita al-Shaab, Maroun al-Ras, Bint Jbeil and Aitaroun. Maroun al-Ras overlooks the Israeli settlement of Avivim across the border.<\/p>\n
The western sector includes Naqoura, Yarine, Dhayra, Marwahin and Alma al-Shaab, with the Lebanese army and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) deployed in the area.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military activity came after US-sponsored military and technical talks between Lebanon and Israel in Tampa, Florida, on Oct. 20-21.<\/p>\n
The meetings ended without an announced breakthrough or a joint statement.<\/p>\n
Reports indicated that the sides agreed to continue negotiations, although disagreements remained over Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon and the disarmament of Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
A framework agreement in June provides for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territories in exchange for the deployment of the Lebanese army and the disarmament of armed groups.<\/p>\n
Despite the agreement, Israel has continued military operations in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Since March 2, the attacks have killed at least 4,386 people, wounded 12,407 and displaced more than 1 million, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahmed Khalifa and Tarek Chouiref 01 November 2026\u2022Update: 01 November 2026 The Israeli army is building new roads…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-663349","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\/663349","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=663349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}