Israeli attacks continue on Southern Lebanon

A photograph taken from the southern Lebanese area of Marjayoun shows smoke as it rises from torched houses in the border village of Khiam on August 24, 2026. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2, when pro-Iran Hezbollah launched rockets towards Israel in response to US-Israeli strikes that killed Iranian supreme leader on February 28, 2026. Despite a November 2024 ceasefire that was supposed to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, Israel has kept up strikes on Lebanon and has maintained troops in areas in southern Lebanon it deems strategic. (Photo by AFP)

Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon continued, targeting homes and infrastructure, amid military movements in several border towns.

Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that Israeli forces blew up a number of homes in the western neighbourhood of the border town of Khiam, with successive explosions heard and smoke rising in the surrounding area.

Israeli forces also carried out bulldozing operations in the town of Houla and set fire to a number of agricultural fields and properties, while simultaneously blowing up several homes in the town’s western neighborhood.

These operations were accompanied by successive explosions and thick plumes of smoke rising across the surrounding area, as fires continued to spread at several locations within the town.

In a related development, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that the bodies of two people were recovered in the Dawhat Kfar Remman area after contact with them was lost yesterday. Preliminary information indicated that an Israeli drone targeted them while they were riding a motorcycle in the area, killing them.