Published On 6/11/2025
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Last update: 23:07 (Mecca time)
The Israeli army announced, Thursday evening, that it had ended its strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, while Lebanese President Joseph Aoun confirmed that the Israeli raids on his country were a complete crime.
The Israeli army said, in a statement, that it “successfully carried out a series of strikes against terrorist infrastructure and a number of weapons depots belonging to the Radwan Unit in southern Lebanon,” noting that Hezbollah “continues its attempts to rebuild terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon, with the aim of harming the State of Israel.”
On Thursday evening, the Israeli army launched a series of air strikes on the towns of Tayr Dibba, Taibe, Ayta al-Jabal, and Zawtar al-Sharqiya (southern Lebanon), after warning residents of the towns in the region to evacuate, in the broadest warning since the ceasefire in November 2024.
The Israeli army spokesman said that the attacks target Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in those towns, in order to deal with what he described as the party’s prohibited attempts to restore its activities in the region.
Preliminary outcome
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced, in a preliminary count, that one person was injured in the bombing that occurred this afternoon, following the killing of one person and the wounding of 8 others in an Israeli raid this morning on the Tyre district in southern Lebanon, in an open area in the Al-Wadi neighborhood.
The Lebanese News Agency reported that Israeli fighters targeted a building in the town of Tair Dibba (Tyre District), in addition to another building in the town of Taybeh (Marjayoun District), a third in the town of Aita al-Jabal (Bint Jbeil District), and a fourth in the eastern town of Zawtar (Nabatieh District).
The agency added that an Israeli drone was flying at a very low altitude over Beirut and its southern suburbs.
The Israeli raids on the three towns caused severe explosions, resulting in flames and thick clouds of smoke, indicating the violence and intensity of the bombing.
Israeli raids on several towns in the south #Lebanon..So what happened?#Aljazeera_News pic.twitter.com/fz64fH4vnE
– Al Jazeera Channel (@AJArabic) November 6, 2025
Simultaneous warnings
Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee issued three simultaneous evacuation warnings via the
The locations ranged from just 4 kilometers from the Israeli border to about 24 kilometers north of the border.
The leaflets warned residents to stay 500 meters away from the designated locations, and the official Lebanese News Agency reported that the Lebanese Civil Defense helped residents evacuate the areas.
The air strikes began about an hour after the warnings were issued, and led to heavy plumes of smoke rising from the targeted sites.
Israeli Channel 12 said that strong explosions were heard in the Upper Galilee and Golan region due to raids in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese positions
On the Lebanese level, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said that the Israeli raids on the south of his country are a complete crime.
Aoun said – in a statement – that what Israel did today in southern Lebanon is a crime in accordance with the provisions of international humanitarian law, which criminalizes targeting civilians, intimidating them, and forcing them to flee their homes.
He stressed that it is also considered a heinous political crime. Whenever Lebanon expresses its openness to a peaceful negotiation approach to resolving the outstanding issues with Israel, it intensifies its aggression against Lebanese sovereignty, flaunts its disdain for Security Council Resolution No. 1701, and persists in violating its obligations under the Cessation of Hostilities Understanding.
As for the Lebanese army, it said that the Israeli enemy launched a wide wave of attacks in the south, targeting several regions and towns, and that these raids aimed to “prevent the completion” of the deployment of its units, under the ceasefire that ended a war between Hezbollah and Israel about a year ago.
He considered that “these condemned attacks are a continuation of the enemy’s destructive approach, which aims to undermine Lebanon’s stability, expand the destruction in the south, and perpetuate the war (…), in addition to preventing the completion of the army’s deployment in implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement.”
In recent weeks, the Israeli army has escalated its attacks against Lebanon, amid warnings against carrying out broader military operations.
#urgent | The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, according to officials: The attacks in #Lebanon Implemented in coordination with the Americans
The Lebanese Army is working at a slower pace than expected to disarm Hezbollah
– If the Lebanese army does not accelerate work to disarm Hezbollah, Israel will do so pic.twitter.com/HIW54big3k– Al Jazeera Channel (@AJArabic) November 6, 2025
On October 30, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, for the first time, ordered the army to confront any Israeli military incursion into the liberated Lebanese territories in the south.
But Aoun said – the next day – that his country is ready to enter into negotiations aimed at ending the Israeli occupation and restoring its lands.
In October 2023, Israel launched an aggression against Lebanon, turning it into a comprehensive war in September 2024, during which it killed more than 4,000 people and wounded about 17,000 others.
Israel also violated the ceasefire agreement, which has been in effect with Hezbollah since November 2024, more than 4,500 times, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries.
Israel is defying the agreement by continuing to occupy five Lebanese hills in the south that it controlled in the last war, in addition to other Lebanese areas that it has occupied for decades.