Two men on a motorcycle pass by a car destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on April 17, 2026 in the city of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L’Orient-Le Jour)
On July 4, 19 days after four men disappeared in southern Lebanon, a shepherd reported to the Lebanese Army human remains by the roadside at the bottom of Wadi Slouqi, one of the strategic valleys where fierce fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli army had continued until a few weeks earlier.Previous search operations had focused several kilometers further south, in the neighboring Wadi Hujeir valley (Marjayoun district) and near where Shaqra, Safad al-Batikh, and Majdal Selm (Bint Jbeil district) — the last place where the four men had been seen — intersect.The army immediately coordinated with UNIFIL to activate the mechanism, the body tasked with overseeing the cease-fire. Positioned upstream of the valley, on the eastern side, Israeli forces fire at any approaches to the so-called “Yellow Line,” the line they imposed to mark a...
On July 4, 19 days after four men disappeared in southern Lebanon, a shepherd reported to the Lebanese Army human remains by the roadside at the bottom of Wadi Slouqi, one of the strategic valleys where fierce fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli army had continued until a few weeks earlier.Previous search operations had focused several kilometers further south, in the neighboring Wadi Hujeir valley (Marjayoun district) and near where Shaqra, Safad al-Batikh, and Majdal Selm (Bint Jbeil district) — the last place where the four men had been seen — intersect.The army immediately coordinated with UNIFIL to activate the mechanism, the body tasked with overseeing the cease-fire. Positioned upstream of the valley, on the eastern side, Israeli forces fire at any approaches to the so-called “Yellow Line,” the line they imposed to...
