{"id":99700,"date":"2026-05-06T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:28:07","slug":"israeli-strikes-hit-southern-lebanon-hezbollah-intensifies-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99700\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, Hezbollah intensifies attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-05T11:30:35+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>Shafaq News- Beirut<\/p>\n<p>Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on several villages<br \/>\nin southern Lebanon on Monday, while Hezbollah continued targeting Israeli<br \/>\nforces at their positions.<\/p>\n<p>Air raids struck the villages of Habboush, Shoukine, Majdal<br \/>\nZoun, and Zawtar al-Sharqiya, while artillery shelling targeted Frun, Haris,<br \/>\nNabatieh al-Fawqa, Ali Al-Taher, and Mifadoun, according to Lebanese media<br \/>\noutlets. <\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah said in separate statements that it had carried<br \/>\nout ten operations against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. The group<br \/>\nreported using explosive drones to strike a Nimr military vehicle that was<br \/>\nattempting to tow a D9 bulldozer previously destroyed during clashes in the<br \/>\nKhallat Raj area near Deir Seryan. Another D9 bulldozer was targeted in Rashaf<br \/>\nusing a similar drone attack.<\/p>\n<p>The group also noted that it targeted a Merkava tank in<br \/>\nQawzah and launched rocket attacks on Israeli troops in Bayada, after striking two<br \/>\nother Merkava tanks there with guided missiles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777980482521.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military announced that five soldiers have been<br \/>\nkilled and 33 wounded since the announcement of a ceasefire with Lebanon on<br \/>\nApril 17, adding that three of the fatalities were caused by drone attacks and<br \/>\ntwo by explosive devices, while 31 soldiers were injured in separate drone<br \/>\nstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 2, Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Israel-kills-15-in-24-hours-in-Lebanon-Hezbollah-reports-12-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strikes<\/a> have killed 2,696 people and<br \/>\nwounded 8,264 others across Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-05T11:30:35+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[152,100,34853,37,34092,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-99700","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-intensifies-attacks","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israeli-strikes-hit-southern-lebanon","13":"tag-lebanon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116524804029870281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99700","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=99700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}