Israeli air strikes reported outside Kfar Tebnit in southern Lebanon

Israeli air strikes have been reported on the outskirts of the town of Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon about 5am (02:00 GMT), according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

Overnight, Israeli artillery fire was reported in the nature reserve of Wadi al-Salouki and on the outskirts of the towns of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Kfar Tebnit and Mayfadoun in southern Lebanon, where Israeli attacks have continued despite a US-brokered ceasefire agreed between Israel and Lebanon in June.

Israeli forces hit southern Lebanon’s al-Mansouri with artillery fire

Lebanon’s National News Agency has reported that the town of al-Mansouri is under Israeli artillery fire.

Located in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, al-Mansouri has repeatedly been hit by Israeli attacks, and its residents forcibly displaced.

Israeli drone strike targets vehicle near Lebanon’s border with Syria

An Israeli drone strike has targeted a car in the Bekaa valley near Lebanon’s border with Syria.

The attack happened in Hosh al-Sayed Ali in the Hermel district according to Lebanon’s state media outlet, National News Agency (NNA)

Images of the strike circulating on social media appear to show the vehicle was empty.

October 7 changed Lebanon’s and Hezbollah’s political reality

A day after the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Hezbollah made the decision to join the war, saying it was doing so in support of the Palestinian people. It is a decision that analysts say has forever shaped Lebanese politics.

Experts said the group underestimated the depth of Israel’s intelligence penetration in the run-up to the war, which later manifested in the bloody September 2024 pager attacks and the assassination of much of Hezbollah’s leadership, including Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

“Hezbollah got sucked into a vortex which culminated in the decapitation of their leadership and the invasion of south Lebanon,” Nicholas Blanford, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and author of a book about Hezbollah, told Al Jazeera.

“That dealt Hezbollah a major blow to their popular standing and galvanized the election of Joseph Aoun as president and the formation of a new government that took a much stronger line against [the group].”