Security
07:50 AM | 19 Jun 2026
The Israeli army escalates... air strikes and casualties in Nabatieh
Fady Mahouly
The Israeli army committed several massacres at dawn in the towns of Sharqiya, Harouf and Kafrsir in the Nabatieh district, after air strikes after midnight targeted inhabited homes, resulting in a number of martyrs, wounded and missing people.
Nabatieh lived through one of the most difficult nights during the recent period of aggression. The Israeli army escalated its pace in a large way and its artillery bombarded it violently and intensively, starting at half past one on Thursday night - Friday, the city of Nabatieh, the Kfarjouz area, and the towns of Kfarman, Zibdin, Nabatieh Al-Fawqa, Habboush, Sajad, and Al-Jabal Al-Rafi’i.
At approximately 2:10 p.m., enemy warplanes launched a series of raids on the city of Nabatieh, the towns of Kafr Tibnit, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and the Rayhan Heights.
At approximately 3:00 p.m., it raided the Kafarjouz-Nabatieh area, the Jamiat neighborhood in the city of Nabatieh, and the Al-Baidar neighborhood in Harouf, and reported the fall of 8 martyrs. It was followed by a raid on the Al-Ashamiya area between the towns of Sharqiya and Al-Duwair, where it destroyed a house and reported the fall of 4 martyrs, coinciding with a concentrated artillery bombardment of the nuns’ neighborhood in the city of Nabatieh and in the town of Kafrsir. An Israeli raid led to the fall of 3 martyrs.
In turn, the town of Al-Qasiba was subjected to a raid around four in the morning that coincided with artillery shelling on the outskirts of Kafrsir and Al-Qasiba, followed by raids on Kafardjal and Kafr Benit.
At around five in the morning, an Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle near the Al-Duwair municipality building, and it was reported that one martyr and one wounded were killed.
The town of Jebshit was also subjected to a series of raids from enemy drones, coinciding with artillery shelling of the town. At approximately 5:15 am, aircraft raided the town of Adshit, followed by a raid on the Kafarjouz-Nabatieh area and on Toul, coinciding with a concentrated artillery bombardment of the town of Jabshit.