Israeli forces detonated houses in Naqoura, causing explosions that were heard in Tyre and the adjacent area in the western sector early Friday evening.
Alarm sirens had already sounded in the UNIFIL headquarters of Ras Naqoura and Naqoura.
The Israeli army also bombarded the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Yaroun, highlighting the ceasefire’s vulnerability once more.
Additionally, the Israeli army turned over two Syrian nationals it had detained on Thursday, during its one-time incursion into Wadi al-Houjeir, to UNIFIL and the Lebanese Army. Both detainees worked as employees at al-Arzal restaurant.
To confirm the Israeli army’s withdrawal, a combined unit of the Lebanese Army and the Indonesian UNIFIL contingent searched the villages of Wadi al-Houjeir, Qantara, Adchit al-Qousayr and the Wadi Saluki outskirts towards Houla on Friday. They specifically cleared the mounds that Israeli forces had erected along several side roads.
In this context, the director of UNIFIL’s mission stated that Khiam “is the only town evacuated by Israel and where the Lebanese army deployed,” according to the American daily The New York Times.
After removing an Israeli roadblock between the southern Lebanon villages of Chamaa and Tayr Harfa, UNIFIL’s Italian engineering unit posted on its X account on Friday that it had “reopened the road to peacekeepers, ambulance drivers and residents.”
With the help of mine clearance dogs, the UN force also made sure that the area was free of explosives before clearing the debris.
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