BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Israeli warplanes and artillery bombarded strategic heights in southern Lebanon on Saturday, while troops demolished residential homes near the border, in the latest wave of attacks amid a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.
The military targeted the Ali al-Tahir heights with airstrikes and shelled the area between Ali al-Tahir and al-Dabsha hills intermittently, according to reports from Lebanese media. Troops also blew up homes around al-Mansouri in the Bint Jbeil district, and shelled the outskirts of the Mifdoun village, Al-Mayadeen TV reported.
Witnesses reported the use of internationally banned phosphorus bombs during the attacks on the Ali al-Tahir area. Israeli surveillance drones have been flying continuously over the region since Friday night, the reports said.
The latest bombardment comes despite a ceasefire agreement brokered by Washington and signed on April 16, 2026. Lebanon’s health ministry says Israeli attacks have killed 4,348 people and wounded 12,307 since March 2 this year. Total casualties since Oct. 8, 2023, stand at 8,915 dead and 30,543 injured.
Israeli forces have breached the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times since November 2024, according to tallies cited in Lebanese reports, with violations including daily air and artillery strikes, home demolitions, and persistent overflights by spy drones. The campaign has displaced some 1.5 million people across Lebanon.
The ceasefire agreement obliges Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah but imposes no similar requirements on Israel, critics say, allowing the Zionist military to continue its terrorist0 operations while international silence persists. 
Lebanon has accused Washington of pressing Beirut to enforce the deal’s terms unilaterally, effectively giving the occupying regime of Israel cover to maintain its military campaign and occupation of Lebanese territory.
Saturday’s attacks mark some of the most intense shelling in weeks, with artillery fire alternating between the Ali al-Tahir heights and surrounding areas. The phosphorus bomb usage constitutes a violation of international protocols prohibiting such weapons in civilian areas.
Lebanese authorities have called on the international community to intervene, but diplomatic efforts have shown little progress, with Western governments largely silent on the continued breaches.
Hezbollah, which has been engaged in cross-border clashes with Israel since October 2023, says Washington is seeking to destabilize Lebanon through the agreement’s enforcement. The group has vowed to continue resisting Israeli incursions.
The United Nations has recorded hundreds of ceasefire violations but has taken no enforcement action, leaving Lebanon’s southern regions under constant threat of further strikes.