Israeli Strikes Intensify in Southern Lebanon
Last update: May 29, 2026
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Imagine being told to pack up and leave your home with no idea when or if you’ll ever get back. That’s the grim reality right now for thousands in southern Lebanon.
Smoke was hanging thick over Nabatieh Governorate on Thursday as Israel ramped up its strikes across southern Lebanon, cbinews.tv reports.
Footage from the area shows huge plumes billowing above Nabatieh and the villages nearby after the latest raids. It’s a sight locals are becoming tragically used to.
The escalation came hot on the heels of fresh evacuation orders from the Israeli army. Residents in Haboush, Kfour, Sahmar, Ain Qana, Nabatieh al-Tahta, and Kfar Rumman were told to get out, head north of the Zahrani River, and wait with no timeline for when they could return home.
Hezbollah didn’t stay quiet. In a flurry of statements, the group said it hit back with artillery shells and rocket barrages, targeting gatherings of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in Al-Bayada, Shama, Zoutar al-Sharqiya, and Yahmur al-Shaqif.
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam took to X on Thursday to slam the attacks. “Nothing justifies the continued attacks on the Tyre and Nabatieh regions,” he wrote, adding that hitting civilian areas and historic landmarks goes way beyond military escalation, it’s wrecking daily life.
He didn’t hold back on the evacuation orders either, calling them “collective punishment” that violates international law. Forcing people to abandon their homes and livelihoods like this? Not on, he said.
On the diplomatic front, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji is working flat out to stop Israeli strikes on the historic city of Tyre.
Meanwhile, the IDF isn’t backing down. Spokesperson Effie Defrin said the Chief of Staff had given clear instructions: “intensify the strikes and deepen the blows against Hezbollah.”
That tracks with what Israeli PM Netanyahu ordered on Monday, more strikes on Hezbollah, even though there’s technically a US-brokered ceasefire in place. Israel and Lebanon are currently in a 45-day extension of that ceasefire, agreed back in mid-May 2026.
The human cost keeps climbing. Figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Health on Wednesday put the toll at 3,269 killed and 9,840 wounded since military tensions flared up on March 2.
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