New strikes and new demolitions were reported across southern Lebanon this weekend following last week’s talks in Rome. Troops detonated homes in the south and set fires further east in the Bekaa Valley.
Three Lebanese soldiers were reported wounded over the weekend in an incident involving unexploded ordinance. The incident was particularly noteworthy because it took place in the “pilot zone” of Zawtar al-Gharbiyah and was located near an earthen barrier that Israeli troops apparently had constructed the night before after infiltrating the pilot zone.
Lebanese officials said this construction of a new barrier was in violation of the pilot zone agreement that Lebanon and Israel had previously reached. The IDF also reportedly shelled the nearby town of Mansouri that evening.
A Lebanese family salvages some belongings from their devastated home in the southern Lebanese village of Zawatar al-Gharbieh. Civilians started returning to the devastated hamlet slowly after the army deployed inside the village following an Israeli withdrawal from several points inside it. (Credit Image: © Marwan Naamani/ZUMA Press Wire)
Two Lebanese civilians were also wounded overnight Sunday when an Israeli drone apparently malfunctioned over Kfar Roumine and slammed into their home. The incident occurred amid reports of a substantial increase in drone activity in that particular area of the south.
Israeli artillery fire was also reported against Ali al-Taher and Nabatieh al-Fawqa. A machine gun fire sweep was also reported against Ali al-Taher, though no casualties were reported in that particular incident.
Israeli drones were also reported over the capital city of Beirut, though no strikes were reported in the area around the capital. Such overflights have become more common in recent days, amid concerns of an imminent escalation of the war.
