Explosions shook parts of southern Lebanon on Friday night as Israeli strikes rippled across the Zahrani district, with the blasts travelling toward the coastal city of Sidon.
Local reports said further bombardments hit a valley linking al-Mseilih, Tuffahata and al-Najjariyah, an area marked by repeated flare-ups over recent months.
Lebanon’s National News Agency later confirmed the locations of the strikes, adding that no casualties had been recorded.
Emergency teams carried out inspections across the affected sites, while residents described a tense evening marked by intermittent blasts.
The Israeli military said its targets were Hezbollah infrastructure positions in the south.
Lebanese officials say ongoing ceasefire breaches have resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries, and that Israel continues to hold five hilltops seized during the latest conflict, along with long-occupied areas.
Hostilities that began in October 2023 escalated sharply in September 2024, leaving more than 4,000 people dead and about 17,000 wounded, according to Lebanese figures.
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More than 1.1 million people have been forced from their homes in Lebanon, according to the United Nations, as the UN spokesman says the humanitarian situation is worsening. Israel recently announced it intends to annex part of Southern Lebanon.
The United Nations Security Council is to vote on a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz, diplomats said on Friday, but veto-wielding China made clear its opposition to authorising any use of force.
French police detained European Parliament member Rima Hassan in Paris for several hours on Thursday as part of an investigation into an alleged “apology for terrorism”, following a social media post linked to a deadly attack in Israel in the 1970s.
Fears of wider escalation grow despite President Donald Trump saying U.S. strikes on Iran could end within weeks. Meanwhile missile attacks, tanker incidents and rising casualties across Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf heighten risks to regional stability and energy routes.
There are fears of an oil spill after a drone strike hit a Kuwaiti oil tanker near Dubai on Tuesday, while U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran reportedly killed at least two people. A loud explosion was heard in Beirut in southern Lebanon early Wednesday, as oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel.
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President Donald Trump staunchly defended his handling of the month-old U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in a prime-time address on Wednesday, saying the U.S. military was nearing completion of its mission while also reinforcing his threats to bomb the Islamic Republic back to the Stone Age.
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Leading Turkish official Fuat Oktay this week called for the dismantling of Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons stockpile. The head of parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee said Israel’s nuclear capability should be “eliminated as soon as possible”.
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