{"id":740616,"date":"2026-07-03T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:40:10","slug":"israel-launches-overnight-strikes-across-southern-lebanon-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740616\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches overnight strikes across southern Lebanon &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-03T08:07:50+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>Israel struck multiple locations across southern<br \/>\nLebanon overnight, wounding two people, while the Israeli military reported<br \/>\nthat one of its soldiers was seriously injured during clashes near the border.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese media said an Israeli drone struck a vehicle<br \/>\nin Siddiqine, in Tyre district, wounding several people. Warplanes also carried<br \/>\nout two strikes within 30 minutes near Ghandour Hospital in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa<br \/>\nand hit a house in Baraachit. Israeli forces razed structures near Kounine and<br \/>\nAl-Tiri in Bint Jbeil district as drones flew over Beirut on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s Health Ministry put the cumulative toll from<br \/>\nthe war between March 2 and July 2 at 4,298 dead and 12,196 wounded, including<br \/>\nwomen and children.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Army Radio noted that troops from the 679th<br \/>\nYiftach Brigade came under fire after entering a building in Bint Jbeil,<br \/>\nleaving one soldier seriously injured and two others lightly wounded. The<br \/>\nIsraeli Air Force later bombed the building while ground forces searched for<br \/>\nthe attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Lebanon and Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/US-announces-Lebanon-Israel-framework-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">advanced<\/a> a US-brokered<br \/>\nframework for a phased Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in exchange for<br \/>\nthe deployment of the Lebanese Army and the disarmament of armed groups.<br \/>\nHezbollah and other political factions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Lebanon-s-main-Shia-parties-reject-US-brokered-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rejected<\/a> the proposal, calling it a<br \/>\nthreat to Lebanese sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have maintained that <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Israel-keeps-troops-in-Lebanon-without-time-limit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">no withdrawal<\/a><br \/>\nwill occur before Hezbollah disarms, while leaked details of a reported<br \/>\nsecurity annex indicate Israeli forces would retain operational freedom in<br \/>\nsouthern Lebanon without a fixed withdrawal timetable. The Lebanese Army is<br \/>\nexpected to deploy to the first two pilot zones under US supervision during the<br \/>\ninitial phase of the arrangement. Israel&#8217;s public broadcaster, however,<br \/>\nreported that the pilot phase has been postponed pending agreement on a revised<br \/>\nimplementation mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/South-Lebanon-framework-What-we-know-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: South Lebanon framework: What we know so far<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-03T08:07:50+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Israel struck multiple locations across southern Lebanon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,451,158238,803,318335,31737,3,289126,64424,452,453,1139],"class_list":["post-740616","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-israel-launches-overnight-strikes-across-southern-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-south-lebanon","tag-strike","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740616","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=740616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}