Israeli forces fire towards Lebanese town: Report
Al Mayadeen TV reports that Israeli forces stationed at a base in Lebanon have been firing machinegun rounds towards the town of Kfarchouba near the eastern sector of the border.
Israel has been violating the ceasefire with Lebanon daily by launching attacks across the country.
With Hezbollah weakened, Lebanese state struggles to fill the void
Israel is holding south Lebanon at a proverbial gunpoint. Violations of the ceasefire that started with targeting what it claimed were Hezbollah members and positions have now moved on to openly targeting civilian infrastructure.
Hezbollah is on the retreat. It knows that its popular base cannot tolerate another war.
A recent statement by the US military’s Central Command said the Lebanese military confiscated more than 10,000 Hezbollah rockets in the area south of the Litani River, near the Israeli border.
Still, Israel is not satisfied, and it is continuing its near-daily attacks across the country while enforcing de facto ethnic cleansing of border communities by preventing reconstruction.
With the Hezbollah military option off the table, many advocates in south Lebanon have been wondering: Where is the state?
In his inauguration speech earlier this year, President Joseph Aoun promised to work on a military, diplomatic, economic and defence strategy to protect Lebanon from Israeli abuses. But so far, the country has been defenceless with no viable options to confront Israel in any arena.
War inevitable if Lebanon does not disarm Hezbollah: US envoy
Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkiye and special envoy to Syria, has issued an ominous warning to Lebanon: disarm Hezbollah or face another Israeli assault and economic and political crises.
“If Beirut fails to act, Hezbollah’s military arm will inevitably face major confrontation with Israel at a moment of Israel’s strength and Iran backed Hezbollah’s weakest point,” Barrack wrote in a social media post.
He went on to describe how Hezbollah would then push to postpone the Lebanese parliamentary election in May 2026 during a war, deepening the political crisis in the country.
Lebanon’s government had issued a decree to disarm Hezbollah, which the group rejected as a “grave sin”, saying it would treat it as if it did not exist.
Barrack said Beirut’s push to make Lebanese forces the sole military force in the country remains closer to aspiration than reality due to what he called Hezbollah’s political dominance and “the fear of civil unrest”.
Israeli army says it targeted Nabatieh in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army says it carried out an attack on Nabatieh in southern Lebanon. It claimed, without evidence, that it targeted Hezbollah personnel and infrastructure.
Lebanese media says three Israeli air attacks hit southern areas
Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting that Israeli warplanes launched three air attacks on southern Lebanon that we reported on earlier. The report said jets hit the areas of al-Mahmoudiyah, al-Aishiyah, Arabsalim and Houmin el-Fawqa. No information was yet available on casualties.
