Heavy cross-border shelling resumed Friday morning targeting the towns of Alma al-Chaab, al-Jbein, Qouzah, Aita al-Chaab, Ramiyeh, the valley between the towns of Terharfa and al-Jbein and the outskirts of the town of Naqoura. At the same time, Israeli aircraft carried out reconnaissance flights over villages in the western and central sectors.
The Israeli air force targeted the solar energy project in the town of Terharfa which provides power to the public water well that supplies several villages, causing significant damage. The cost of the project is estimated at USD 300 thousand.
The regions and villages adjacent to the Blue Line and other southern villages had witnessed intense bombardment overnight Thursday to Friday, marked by heavy shelling and airstrikes that targeted the surroundings of Aita al-Chaab and Adhaima, as well as valleys near the towns of Zibqin, Yater, Hanin, and Beit Leif.
This led to significant damage to a house in Aita al-Chaab. The night skies over the area were illuminated by flares, reaching the outskirts of the towns of Zibqin, Yater and Kafra.
The surge in cross-border violence between Hezbollah and Israel came on the eve of a speech by Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, scheduled for 3 PM Friday.
The Israeli army expanded its attacks Thursday beyond villages adjacent to the Blue Line, targeting civilians and inhabited houses and warning residents to steer clear and avoid venturing outside.
Concerning the situation of the population’s displacement, around ten thousand displaced southerners have sought assistance from the Natural Disaster Management Unit in the Union of Tyre Municipalities to secure their daily needs. They are distributed across four displacement centers located in public schools and several apartments provided by the local residents, free of charge, in villages and towns in the area of Tyre.
The Disaster Unit has also prepared four mobile clinics roaming in the area to provide medical assistance to the displaced. More than 29,000 people are believed to have been displaced since border tensions erupted following the outbreak of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on October 7.
Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on Friday that Israeli army forces had eliminated a cell of saboteurs spotted inside a Hezbollah compound in Lebanon on Thursday and destroyed infrastructure in response to the firing of projectiles towards Israel. He then claimed that an Israeli tank “attacked a cell of saboteurs attempting to fire an anti-tank projectile towards Israeli territory in the Jabal Ross area.”
He also mentioned that one soldier had been wounded, and another slightly, as a result of an enemy drone falling on a military site in the Jabal Ross area.
