The smoke rising above the heights of Tawmat Niha, in the Jezzine district, South Lebanon, on June 22, 2025 at dawn. Photo obtained by Mountasser Abdallah.
An Israeli fighter jet carried out a dawn strike Sunday on the heights of Tawmat Niha in the Jezzine district of South Lebanon, targeting a building belonging to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television channel, according to L'Orient Today's local correspondents in the area.
Tawmat Niha lies north of the Litani River, roughly 30 kilometers east of the Israeli-Lebanese border and 20 kilometers north of the Blue Line. The explosion was heard across the Bekaa Valley.
Overnight, the Israeli army also claimed a strike on a site in Naqoura allegedly used by Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, which it described as being “used to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.”
Ongoing strikes despite cease-fire
The Israeli military continues to conduct near-daily strikes in southern Lebanon, and more sporadically in the Bekaa Valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs, despite a cease-fire that has technically been in place since late November 2024. That agreement ended 13 months of war between Hezbollah and Israel.
According to the United Nations, more than 230 people have been killed by Israeli fire since the truce took effect.
House blown up in Aitaroun
On Sunday morning, the Israeli army also destroyed a residential home near the village of Aitaroun, in the Bint Jbeil district, witnesses told our correspondent in south Lebanon. The house was located near one of the positions still occupied by Israeli forces in the Jabal al-Blat region.
The destruction of homes by Israeli forces had largely ceased after their withdrawal from South Lebanon, except in the five positions they have continued to hold since mid-February 2025. In recent days, however, these demolitions appear to have resumed. On the night from Thursday to Friday, Israeli troops reportedly blew up several houses in the Marjayoun district.
