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2026-05-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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IDF announces that the area south of the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon is a combat zone
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The IDF spokesperson in Arabic announces that all the area south of the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon is considered a combat zone and recommends that the residents should move to the north of the Zahrani.
The attached map is not from today but shows the current evacuation instructions.
Soldier killed in Hezbollah drone attack as Israel widens strikes on terror group
[IsraelTimes] Sgt. Rotem Yanai, 20, killed while running to shelter in military zone on northern border, two reservists injured; IDF targets terror sites around Tyre after urging civilians to flee further north
A soldier was killed and two reservists were maimed in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack near the Lebanese border, the military announced Thursday, as fighting along the restive frontier continued to intensify.
Sgt. Rotem Yanai, a 20-year-old service conditions NCO in the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion, was killed as she ran to a shelter during a twin drone attack in a military zone on the Israeli side of the border on Wednesday, the army said.
In Leb
 ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, the Israel Defense Forces said it had begun striking Hezbollah infrastructure around the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, a day after issuing a sweeping evacuation warning indicating that it would extend operations to areas up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border, with political and military leaders vowing to ramp up operations in Lebanon and expanding a ground campaign.
Yanai, a resident of Giv’at Ada in central Israel, was the 24th soldier to be killed since Hezbollah began attacking Israel on March 2 in support of Iran, after US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Theocratic Republic . A civilian contractor has also been killed in southern Lebanon.
A second explosive drone that also took part in the deadly attack Wednesday seriously maimed a reservist and left another reservist in moderate condition.
The drones had triggered sirens in the area as they were detected; however, they were not intercepted.
Israel has struggled to fend off growing attacks on troops in southern Lebanon and northern Israel by Hezbollah’s first-person view drones, which are largely impervious to jamming technology. The terror group has also fired rockets and other types of UAVs, hitting both military and civilian targets.
Another Hezbollah drone was intercepted early Thursday morning over an area of southern Lebanon where Israeli troops are operating, the military said. The drone and the attempts to shoot it down triggered sirens in several border communities in the Galilee panhandle.
Including Yanai, 11 soldiers have been killed on the Lebanese front since the start of a ceasefire, now largely unraveled, between Israel and Hezbollah last month.
Talks are expected on Friday between Lebanese and Israeli military delegations at the Pentagon, with a new round of direct negotiations aimed at ending the hostilities set for next week. A delegation comprising six Lebanese officers, headed by the army’s director of operations Georges Rizkallah, will participate in the talks.
A Lebanese military source told AFP the delegation will "emphasize the need for a ceasefire, and will present the army’s plan for a state weapons monopoly and the extension of state authority across the country."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Israel is "intensifying operations" in Lebanon by taking strategic positions and reinforcing the security buffer zone as the IDF pushed past the lines it held as it seeks to counter the recent surge in drone attacks.
On Thursday morning, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported two sets of Israeli strikes on Tyre and an area to its east, hitting a building and sparking a fire in Tyre.
The strikes came after the IDF issued an evacuation order for the area, saying it was "compelled to take forceful action" against Hezbollah. It announced in a later statement that it had begun strikes targeting the group’s infrastructure. In a sweeping evacuation order issued Wednesday, Lebanese civilians were told to flee north of the Zahrani River, extending the potential combat zone deeper inside Lebanese territory.
An Israeli military official said Tuesday that soldiers had begun operating outside the "yellow line," which runs around 10 kilometers deep inside Lebanese territory.
The latest round of fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group has claimed more than 3,000 lives in Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s health ministry last week. Several hundred of that number were said to have been killed amid the shaky US-brokered ceasefire.
The figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, though sources familiar with Hezbollah’s own casualty figures have said some of the terror group’s fighters aren’t included.
The Israeli military has said that it has killed over 2,000 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since hostilities escalated amid the war with Iran.
During the fighting in Lebanon, Hezbollah has fired some 5,500 rockets at IDF troops operating in the south of the country, as well as around 2,500 at Israel, according to the military.
There have been at least 75 rocket impact sites in Israel. In addition, Hezbollah has launched around 300 drones, of which 25 struck Israel, according to the IDF.
Wednesday Hezbollah claims clashes with Israeli troops north of Litani; IDF dismisses reports
[IsraelTimes] Terror group reports ‘point-blank’ battle in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah amid IDF ground advance; IAF maintains heavy strikes, a day after reportedly killing 31, including Lebanese soldier
In a statement Wednesday, the Iran-backed group said its fighters “clashed with the enemy forces at point-blank range” with light and medium weapons in the town of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, located on the northern bank of the Litani river, which has marked a de-facto frontier separating the war-torn south from the rest of Lebanon. The village is near the eastern edge of the Israeli-declared “Yellow Line,” where its troops have been operating during the current round of fighting.
Since early Tuesday, the terror group has said its fighters have faced Israeli troops entering the town, which holds strategic importance due to its proximity to the major southern city of Nabatieh, just under five miles (7 kilometers) away. It has also said it launched several rocket, artillery and exploding drone attacks on Israeli troops and vehicles mobilizing along the river toward the nearby village of Yohmor al-Shaqif.
In response to the reports, the Israel Defense Forces said that it was “unaware of anything unusual.”
IDF MAINTAINS HEAVY STRIKES
Amid the ground advance, Israel continued its intensive strikes, saying midday Wednesday that over the previous 24 hours, it struck more than 150 Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites and operatives in the Lebanese cities of Tyre and Nabatieh, as well as in the Beqaa Valley. The IDF published footage of strikes.
The military issued several evacuation warnings ahead of the strikes, including for the entire city of Nabatieh, the second evacuation order for the city in as many days. Residents of the city were instructed to evacuate north of the nearby Zahrani River.
The IDF also issued evacuation warnings for residents of Tyre and its surrounding Palestinian refugee camps, as well as for the towns of Kfar Houneh, Aaramta, Mlikh, Jarjouaa and Houmin al-Fawqa, who were told to evacuate at least a kilometer away.
After the warnings, the IDF said it launched another wave of airstrikes targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
Tuesday was one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks, Lebanese security sources said.
Fourteen were killed in Burj al-Shamali near Tyre, five in Kawthariyat al-Riz, four in Habbush, six in Maarakeh and two in Salaa, the ministry said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency added that one strike in Nabatieh hit the vicinity of a public hospital, causing “significant damage to the hospital’s departments.”
Several strikes also hit near Lebanon’s largest dam in the Litani river’s Qaraoun lake in the east. The Litani River Authority issued a statement warning that “any direct or indirect targeting of the Qaraoun Dam or its facilities could lead to catastrophic risks for residents, infrastructure, and vital installations in the areas downstream.”
Lebanon’s civil defense said one of its rescuers succumbed to his wounds after a strike on the town of Qaraoun, near the dam, as he was tending to a man hit by a previous attack.
Additionally, the Lebanese military said on Wednesday that a soldier had been killed in an Israeli airstrike near his post in in the Beqaa valley the day before. It said that it had retrieved his body after delays due to security concerns.
HEZBOLLAH DRONES EXPLODE IN NORTH, NO INJURIES REPORTED
Meanwhile, Hezbollah continued its drone fire on northern Israel, with sirens sounding in several towns and communities throughout the day Wednesday. Several explosive drones impacted in areas near the Lebanese border, the IDF said following sirens Wednesday afternoon. The military said the incident is under investigation. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The army also said it launched an interceptor missile at “suspicious aerial targets” in an area where troops are operating in southern Lebanon, following sirens that sounded in the Rosh Hanikra area. The results of the interception were under review, the military added, saying that the sirens were sounded according to protocol.
An IDF official admitted to Channel 12 this week that Israel has found itself “defenseless” against the drone threat posed by Hezbollah, with the terror group increasingly deploying first-person view drones guided by fiber-optic cables, which are largely immune to electronic jamming. Israel has resorted to makeshift methods to defend against the surge in drone use, including placing nets and protective cages above military vehicles.
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