BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- Israeli occupation forces have unleashed a renewed wave of terror across southern Lebanon over the past 48 hours, committing brazen atrocities against civilian populations, deploying internationally banned phosphorus munitions, and systematically torching vast agricultural lands in what experts are condemning as a deliberate campaign of ecocide—all while a disgraceful U.S.-brokered deal continues to shield the Zionist regime from any accountability.
Since Saturday night and into Monday, Israeli warplanes, artillery batteries, and helicopter gunships have pounded civilian-inhabited areas with indiscriminate ferocity. 
The strategic Ali al-Taher hill east of Nabatieh has been subjected to relentless airstrikes, but the bombing has not been limited to military targets. 
Entire villages have been engulfed in flames as Israeli forces deployed white phosphorus shells—an incendiary weapon widely banned under international humanitarian law when used in populated areas due to its horrific and inhumane effects on human flesh and the environment.
Phosphorous artillery shelling has rained down around Ali al-Taher and adjacent communities, setting fire to olive groves, citrus orchards, and wheat fields that have sustained Lebanese families for generations. 
Helicopter machine-gun fire strafed civilian neighborhoods, while Merkava tanks shelled the town of Mansouri early Sunday. 
Heavy machine-gun fire targeted the town of Taybeh and the outskirts of Kfar Shouba, as flares lit up the night sky over Kfar Rumman and shells struck Haddatha and Burj Mtoullin. 
By Monday, two Merkava tanks and a D9 bulldozer—infamous for their use in demolishing homes and uprooting trees—had advanced into the Al-Shmeis area northeast of Kfar Shouba, continuing the destruction.
The massacre of civilians reached a new peak on Saturday when Israeli airstrikes obliterated a home in the town of Ansar, killing 11 people—including three children. 
Entire families were buried under the rubble as the house was completely flattened in what survivors described as a deliberate strike with no military justification. 
The attack came hours after a resistance operation seriously wounded three Israeli troops near Ali al-Taher, exposing Israel’s doctrine of collective punishment: responding to tactical setbacks by slaughtering civilians.
“Hezbollah will not remain silent in the face of such brutal massacres,” the resistance movement declared in a statement, vowing an “appropriate response” to what it called Israel’s “brutal massacre.” 
The group also condemned Lebanese authorities “not to insist on continuing the path of humiliating direct negotiations and offering free gifts to the enemy,” referencing the June framework deal brokered by Washington—an agreement that demands Hezbollah disarmament before any Israeli withdrawal and imposes zero obligations on Tel Aviv to stop its atrocities.
That deal, hailed by U.S. officials as a pathway to stability, has in practice become a license for Israeli terror. Since March 2026, when Israel launched its latest ground incursion, the Zionist regime has killed thousands of Lebanese civilians and displaced over a million people.
Entire villages have been razed; hospitals, schools, and water infrastructure have been systematically targeted. The occupation army has declared a so-called “security zone” across dozens of villages, but this is nothing more than a euphemism for ethnic cleansing—forcibly emptying Lebanese land of its indigenous population to make way for Israeli military control.
The ecocide unfolding in the south is equally chilling. Israeli strikes have ignited vast tracts of farmland, burning ancient olive trees that are not only economic lifelines but cultural symbols of Lebanese heritage. 
Forests have been consumed by phosphorus-induced fires, releasing toxic fumes that poison the air and soil. Agricultural wells have been contaminated, and irrigation canals have been destroyed, rendering the land uninhabitable for years to come. 
Environmental groups have documented the scorching of hundreds of hectares, warning that the ecological damage will take decades to reverse.
Despite the horror, the international community has remained largely silent, and the U.S. continues to arm and shield Israel diplomatically. 
The June deal, which critics have denounced as a betrayal of Lebanese sovereignty, has done nothing to restrain Israeli aggression. 
Instead, it has emboldened Tel Aviv to escalate its campaign of terror, knowing full well that Washington will veto any meaningful UN Security Council action.