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Israel Targets Southern Lebanon with Overnight Air Strikes

Lebanese media said the overnight attacks hit multiple towns as Israel targeted Hezbollah positions and underground infrastructure after recent border violence.

  • On Wednesday, Israeli forces conducted overnight strikes across southern Lebanon, with explosions reported in Srebbine, Mansouri, and al-Qantara amid continuing tensions around a strategic Hezbollah stronghold.
  • These strikes occur amid confrontation around the Ali Taher ridge, where the IDF maintains control over access routes to a fortified underground Hezbollah complex housing operatives and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers.
  • In mid-August, Hezbollah launched an attack drone that seriously wounded an IDF officer and two soldiers. Lebanese authorities later reported nine people killed in subsequent Israeli strikes around the Ali Taher ridge, Ansar, and Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
  • Shortly before the strikes, the municipality of Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli city near the Lebanese border, alerted residents that additional IDF activity was expected. The military stated operations target Hezbollah infrastructure including command centers and rocket launchers.
  • Israel has largely refrained from accelerating operations against the complex, citing concerns that such actions could provoke an Iranian response and trigger broader regional escalation.
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Violent Israeli bombings struck Ali Taher and several villages in South Lebanon, causing fires and damage, in the face of continuing diplomatic tensions.

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Hebrew artillery bombards the outskirts of Doha Kfar Reman, the surroundings of Tell al Dabsha and the Ali al Taher forest until dawn

·Madrid, Spain
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This article was originally published on Cedarnews.net. For more news and exclusive reports, visit our website. Around 6:45 AM, Israeli warplanes launched two airstrikes on the Ali al-Taher hill on the northern outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa. Later that night, artillery shelled the outskirts of Doha Kfar Remman, the vicinity of Tell al-Dabsha, and the Ali al-Taher forest with concentrated fire, using phosphorus shells, until dawn. This news was …

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The Lebanese official press agency reports that the Israeli air force has carried out two new raids in southern Lebanon. The attacks, conducted five minutes apart from each other, hit the strategic ridge of Ali al-Taher, in the province of Nabatieh, an area that dominates southern Lebanon and the north of Israel

·Milan, Italy
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Saudi Gazette broke the news in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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