{"id":257338,"date":"2026-08-20T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257338\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:27:10","slug":"israeli-airstrikes-pound-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257338\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli airstrikes pound southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A file photo of Lebanese army patrols operating in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon amid devastation caused by Israeli strikes. Lebanese Armed Forces<\/p>\n


\n\tBEIRUT \u2013 20 August 2026: Southern Lebanon came under heavy Israeli bombardment early Thursday, with Israeli fighter jets carrying out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in Nabatieh district.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe strikes hit the heights of Ali Al-Taher, Doha Kfar Reman and Al-Debsha area, amid heavy and sustained artillery fire.<\/p>\n


\n\tLocal sources said Israeli aircraft used powerful missiles in the strikes, with loud explosions heard as far as Sidon and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n


\n\tFootage circulating online showed the aftermath of the strikes.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe attack comes days after eleven people were killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon in one of the deadliest days of attacks since large-scale fighting ended in June.<\/p>\n


\n\tSeven people, including three children and two women, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern Lebanese village of Ansar early this week, while four others were killed in a separate strike on Deir El Zahrani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A file photo of Lebanese army patrols operating in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon amid devastation caused by Israeli strikes.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[3065,97,93,712,7227,973],"class_list":["post-257338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-ceasefire","tag-israeli-airstrikes","tag-lebanon","tag-missiles","tag-nabatieh","tag-southern-lebanon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117126892345893824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}