BEIRUT, Lebanon: Israel carried out dawn airstrikes on several towns in southern Lebanon on Saturday, state media reported, while Hezbollah announced attacks on Israeli forces, a month into the Middle East war.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported “a series of strikes” at dawn on the town of Majdal Selm and “successive strikes” on the towns of Kafra, Hanniyeh, Touline and Adloun.
It added that several Israeli strikes also targeted the city of Nabatiyeh, hitting “residential and commercial buildings and a fuel station”.
At the same time, the agency reported strikes on border towns, particularly Taybeh, along with “an attempt by enemy forces to advance toward the Litani area”.
For its part, Hezbollah said in a series of statements that it had targeted gatherings of Israeli forces in Debel, a predominantly Christian border town with some remaining residents despite the war.
The group said it struck a Merkava tank “with an attack drone” in Debel.
And it said that “after monitoring an Israeli enemy force positioned in a house in Debel, its fighters targeted it with an attack drone”.
Hezbollah also announced it targeted the Israeli military’s Northern Command headquarters, north of the city of Safed in northern Israel, with a volley of rockets.
Israel has ramped up airstrikes across Lebanon amid ongoing cross-border exchanges with Hezbollah, despite a ceasefire that has been in place since November 2024.
The escalation comes against the backdrop of a wider regional conflict following a joint US-Israeli offensive on Iran that began on February 28.
Iran has since launched retaliatory drone and missile strikes targeting Israel as well as US-linked sites across Jordan, Iraq, and Gulf countries.
