Israel launches new wave of brutal attacks on Lebanon

Israel has launched a new wave of attacks on southern and eastern Lebanon, taking the total number of people that the terrorist state has murdered in the country since February 2nd 2026 to at least 486.

On Tuesday 10 March 2026 Israel launched two air attacks on Tyre (Sour), a city in Southern Lebanon. Not long before the attacks, the Israeli army threatened attacks on both Tyre and Sidon (Saida). It urged residents to:

evacuate immediately and move at least 300 metres [about 1,000ft] away.

Since Israel assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, it has been increasing its illegal presence in Eastern Lebanon, whilst also bombing the country, including the capital, Beirut.

Israeli media are reporting that:

Israel wants to expand its presence in southern Lebanon, expand that buffer zone.

Which is, of course, illegal and entirely intolerable under international law.

Meanwhile:

Hezbollah says it has so far repelled advances on a number of axes.

Israel repeatedly claims it is expanding into Lebanon to defeat Hezbollah. Except that if that were the case, it would not be indiscriminately bombing civilians.

Talks of a ‘demilitarised area’ or a ‘temporary buffer zone’ mean one thing and one thing only – illegal occupation. In other words, Israel is stealing even more land, which it has no legal right to.

Israel intensify attacks

Overnight on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes launched attacks on the towns of Almajadel, Chaqra, Srifa and in the Bekaa Valley.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) also reported:

heavy Israeli attacks near the town of Ansariya as well as on the outskirts of Bint Jbeil and Ainatha.

Four people were killed in the Bint Jbeil district.

Other Israeli attacks included the southern Lebanese towns of Majdal in the Tyre district and Kafr Sasir in the Nabatieh district.

Israel also murdered a Maronite Catholic priest, Father Pierre al-Rahi, in the village of Qlayaa.

Lebanese newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour reported that:

al-Rahi was killed after an Israeli tank fired on the home of a local couple a second time after several people had rushed there to try to help.

One day before his death, on the steps to his church, al-Rahi told France24:

We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.

Resistance

In the last week, Israel has also targeted at least 30 sites belonging to the Al-Qard al-Hasan association, which provides interest-free loans and other financial services in Lebanon. It is doing so because it’s “affiliated with Hezbollah”.

But what we need to remember, and what the entirety of the West seems to forget, is that Hezbollah would not exist if Israel had not invaded Lebanon in 1982.

Additionally, armed resistance is not illegal under international law. A United Nations General Assembly resolution states:

The General Assembly,

Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;

In December 2025, Canary writer Mohamad Kleit wrote:

I saw nothing but rubble. Destroyed houses, lost dreams, and graffiti in Hebrew promising an Israeli return to take over the border towns. This statement on the wall was accompanied by other racist, colonial slurs against Lebanon, drawn on what remained of houses and shops, by the Israeli occupation forces during the 2024 war.

This shows the current attacks on Lebanon are not some new attempt to disarm Hezbollah. They are part of a prolonged and systematic colonial attempt to invade the land.

Moreover, Israel’s ‘Greater Israel project’ was formally established in 1967. This was only one month after Israel illegally annexed the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War.

According to Middle East Eye:

It is often understood as a vision of territorial expansion to encompass Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

So it is not surprising that, according to a Financial Times report, Israeli officials discussed launching a strike on Hezbollah before the attack on Iran even started.

 

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Bombing Lebanon has never been about disarming Hezbollah – that’s the same bullshit we were fed about Hamas in Gaza while Israel carpet bombed the whole area.

Israel’s actions created Hezbollah, just as it did with Hamas. But as soon as Israel has to face the consequences of its actions, which let’s face it, are tiny in comparison, it plays the victim and cries terrorism.

Israel and the US simply do not like the idea of people in the Global South being able to defend themselves.

And from where I’m standing, there is only one terrorist.

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