'Most massive attack since ceasefire': IOF bombs 47+ towns in S. Leb.
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Israeli warplanes attacked at least 47 towns across seven districts in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing civilians in Mashghara, Arab Salim, and Kfar Rumman.
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Wreckage is seen as the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Rumman, Nabatieh District, May 11, 2026. (Social media)
Israeli warplanes bombed 47 towns and villages across southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday in what a Lebanese military source described as the most massive single-day attack since the April 16 ceasefire agreement.
The source, cited by RIA Novosti, said enemy aircraft hit 44 towns in the south and three in the east. Al Mayadeen's tally of the strikes covers towns and villages across seven districts, from the southern border to the western Bekaa Valley.
The attacks targeted towns across the Nabatieh, Tyre, Bint Jbeil, Marjayoun, Jezzine, Saida, and western Bekaa districts, with some towns bombed repeatedly throughout the day. Zawtar al-Sharqiyah was attacked up to ten times, Nabatieh City seven times, Mashghara in the western Bekaa six times, and al-Sultaniyah in the Bint Jbeil District five times.
The attacks were carried out through a combination of airstrikes, artillery shelling, and drone strikes on vehicles. Phosphorous shelling was reported near Tyre, targeting agricultural and forested areas in al-Mansouri, Qlayleh, and al-Hanniyyeh.
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Israeli forces also carried out a "fire belt" between Kafra, Haris, and Zebqine. Artillery shelling hit Kfar Tebnit and Nabatieh al-Fawqa intermittently, while drone strikes targeted vehicles on roads linking KFar Rumman, al-Jarmaq, and Khardali, as well as a motorcycle near a hotel on the Kfar Rumman -- al-Jarmaq highway.
An additional 25 towns closer to the border were subjected to intense artillery fire, while attack drones struck vehicles in 11 towns.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported on Monday that "Israel" has killed 3,185 civilians and injured 9,633 others since March 2. Monday's attacks resulted in the martyrdom of at least three people in Arab Salim, among them two elderly, four were martyred, and three were injured in an attack on the Kfar Rumman cemetery, and one civilian was martyred on the Khardali road.
In Mashghara, where six attacks were recorded, among those martyred were Sheikh Hussein Rizk, Samir Rizk, Hamza Rizk, and his two daughters.
Intensification since the 'ceasefire'
The April 16 ceasefire has intensified the Israeli aggression against South Lebanon. Israeli media had reported in recent days that the ceasefire agreement, tied to the broader US-Iran framework, prevents "Israel" from striking Beirut and its Southern Suburb, effectively concentrating the full weight of its attacks on southern towns and villages.
The intensification also directly tracks with sustained Resistance operations, as Israeli occupation forces have been recording casualties from FPV drone strikes on an almost daily basis, with the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon conducting an average of 24 operations per day against IOF soldiers, vehicles, and positions.
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Israeli alarm
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth warned that Hezbollah's FPV drones have evolved from a tactical nuisance into a strategic threat, with the resistance conducting coordinated multi-drone strikes against concentrated IOF positions in successive waves.
Engineering vehicles have been withdrawn from the field, and contractors demolishing Lebanese homes have been restricted to nighttime operations only due to the drone threat.
Former head of the Israeli Foreign Affairs and Security Committee Ofer Shelah warned this week that the current military presence in southern Lebanon risks ending in failure identical to the 2000 withdrawal, describing it as "a recipe for disaster" and stating that Israeli soldiers "achieve no objective" there.
The Israeli Ministry of Health reported 964 war-related injuries since the Lebanon ceasefire entered into force on April 16.
Resistance and Liberation Day
Most significantly, Monday's intensified aggression also coincides with Lebanon's Resistance and Liberation Day, marking the 26th anniversary of the forced Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon on May 25, 2000, after 22 years of occupation.
The same towns being bombed today were among those liberated that day, and the same deterrence equation the Resistance established then, that the cost of occupation can be raised beyond what any army is willing to bear, is being rewritten now with fiber-optic FPV drones.
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