{"id":664794,"date":"2026-05-25T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664794\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:41:13","slug":"israeli-strikes-intensify-over-southern-lebanon-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664794\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes intensify over Southern Lebanon &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-25T21:12:38+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Beirut<\/p>\n<p>Israeli aircraft carried out extensive airstrikes in<br \/>\nsouthern Lebanon, the Israeli military announced on Monday, adding that the strikes<br \/>\ntargeted sites belonging to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Israeli military said <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Israeli-strikes-hit-southern-Lebanon-as-Hezbollah-targets-border-positions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strikes<\/a> targeted<br \/>\naround 10 Hezbollah command centers and weapons depots in the Tyre area of<br \/>\nsouthern Lebanon, noting that \u201cforces had struck more than 70 Hezbollah-linked<br \/>\nsites across different parts of Lebanon during the day.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Local Lebanese sources reported that overnight strikes<br \/>\ntargeted towns in the Nabatieh, Bint Jbeil, Tyre and the western Bekaa Valley, killing<br \/>\nat least five people in the town of Mashghara.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army\u2019s Northern Command chief, Major General<br \/>\nRafi Milo, stated earlier that military operations against Hezbollah would<br \/>\nintensify during the night and in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also cited plans<br \/>\nto increase military pressure in Lebanon and carry out stronger strikes against<br \/>\nHezbollah. \u201cWe will increase the scale of our strikes against<br \/>\nHezbollah,\u201d Netanyahu vowed, highlighting that Israel had formed a special team<br \/>\nto counter the threat posed by suicide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Israel-fails-to-counter-Hezbollah-drones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drones<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-25T21:12:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Israeli aircraft carried out extensive airstrikes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,451,158238,803,290610,31737,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-664794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-israeli-strikes-intensify-over-southern-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}