{"id":97191,"date":"2026-05-04T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97191\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:41:07","slug":"israeli-strikes-hit-southern-lebanon-hezbollah-reports-counterattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97191\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, Hezbollah reports counterattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-04T13:19:42+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafaq News- Beirut <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli forces carried out airstrikes and artillery shelling<br \/>\non several villages in southern Lebanon on Monday, while Hezbollah announced<br \/>\ntwo separate operations targeting Israeli forces since the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli air raids struck the villages of Borj Kalawyh,<br \/>\nSarifa, Kfar Tibnit, Sajd, Jabal al-Rafi, Debaal, Shhour, Braachit, and Qana.<br \/>\nArtillery fire also targeted the towns of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, Mifadoun, and Henniya.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response, Hezbollah said in two separate statements that<br \/>\nit had targeted a gathering of Israeli vehicles and soldiers in the village of<br \/>\nAl-Qantara using rockets, as well as a newly established command position in<br \/>\nAl-Bayada, using explosive-laden drones that \u201chit their targets accurately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group also published video footage showing attacks on an<br \/>\nIsraeli military vehicle and a bulldozer in Al-Bayada and Bint Jbeil using<br \/>\ndrone strikes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Lebanese authorities, more than 8,500 Israeli<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Deadly-strikes-continue-in-south-Lebanon-Hezbollah-hits-Israeli-troops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">violations<\/a> \u2014including excavation and bulldozing operations, shelling, and the<br \/>\nuse of phosphorus munitions were recorded since March 2. The Lebanese Health<br \/>\nMinistry has recorded 2,679 deaths and 8,229 injuries nationwide. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli army reported 735 injuries among its officers<br \/>\nand soldiers since early March, including 44 in critical condition and 100<br \/>\nmoderately injured, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a<br \/>\n\u201cspecial project\u201d to counter drone threats is underway, noting that progress<br \/>\nwill take time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-04T13:19:42+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Israeli forces carried out airstrikes and artillery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[152,100,34093,37,34092,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-97191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-hezbollah-reports-counterattacks","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israeli-strikes-hit-southern-lebanon","13":"tag-lebanon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116516597416754392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97191","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=97191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}