Conflict & Security
Israel strikes multiple towns across southern Lebanon
October 3, 2026 at 02:03 PM · Updated 13d ago
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4 reports · over 9 hours
Israeli forces continued strikes across southern Lebanon on Saturday, extending operations that have persisted through successive ceasefire extensions since April.
- Artillery shelled Talousa and Bani Hayyan, and forces burned homes in Houla, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported.
- Multiple large explosions struck Mansouri, and Israeli warplanes carried out two airstrikes on Bani Hayyan.
- Strikes also targeted Wadi al-Hujair, Tayri, Brashit, Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Wadi al-Salouqi, with demolitions in Beit Yahoun and Beit Lif.
- An FAO delegation toured Nabatieh to assess agricultural war damage, including a phosphorous-struck site and a 50-year-old olive grove hit by a rocket.
- The Israeli military said eight soldiers from its 7th Armored Brigade were lightly injured in an 'operational traffic accident' in southern Lebanon on Friday near Rab Thalatheen.


