Israeli Army Carries Out Artillery Strikes, Ground Incursion and House Burnings in Southern Lebanon, Reports Say

The Israeli army carried out explosions, artillery shelling, a ground incursion and house burnings in southern Lebanon on a Monday in August, according to Lebanon’s state news agency, the National News Agency. The agency said Israeli forces fired machine guns toward Wadi al-Salouqi in Nabatieh governorate and shelled the town of Mansouri overnight. In Nabatieh, Israeli forces carried out a major explosion in Kfar Tebnit, and the outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa came under intermittent artillery fire. The agency also reported that Israeli forces burned several houses in Khiam while operations continued inside the town.

A separate report from tercerainformacion.es described Israeli attacks on various locations in southern Lebanon on a Monday, including aerial and artillery bombardments, demolition operations and blasting. It said fighter aircraft carried out two attacks on the town of Qantara in Maryayun district and one on Kafr Tibnit in Nabatiya district. It also reported a drone bombardment in the Yarmaq area in Yezin district, and artillery shelling of the outskirts of Haris, Braachit, Mansouri, Kafr Tibnit, Zotar al-Sharqiya and Al-Jiam in Hasbaya district. This report does not state the date of the Monday it describes, so it cannot be confirmed as the same day as the National News Agency account.

A later report from france24.com, dated November 12, focused on displaced families in southern Lebanon. It cited the UN as saying that more than 360,000 people in Lebanon remain displaced after months of war between Israel and Hezbollah. The report said the Israeli army claims to be fighting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, and that the Israeli army now occupies 6 percent of Lebanese territory. It also stated that the Israeli army is wiping entire villages off the map along the border. These are the report’s descriptions and claims; the article does not present independent verification of the village destruction. Displaced families losing homes and villages underscores the need to protect the vulnerable (Proverbs 31:8-9).

A fourth item, from vdlnews.com, carried the headline that the Israeli army is carrying out a sweep in the town of Bra’shit, south of Lebanon. Its body text, however, was a social media share of an Iran News Agency article about a call on the United Nations to condemn a Washington reward offer related to Iran’s nuclear program. That text also said the occupation carries out blow-ups with heavy tank fire east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The body text does not address the Bra’shit sweep, and the report does not give a date for these events.