The state-run National News Agency reported that the occupation forces withdrew from the hill where the shrine was located due to significant resistance from Hezbollah. A UN peacekeeping site nearby was hit by artillery fire as a result of the bombardments, according to the report.

Even before there was the state of Israel, the Zionists were pushing for the British “to put the borders between Lebanon and Palestine at the time at the Litani River” as they saw it as part of their “Jewish homeland,” Karim Makdisi, an associate professor at the American University of Beirut, told Anadolu.

Hezbollah stated in a series of statements on Telegram by 1450GMT that it “targeted an Israeli tank with guided missiles as it advanced towards the town of Ras al-Naqoura, resulting in its burning and destruction, and casualties among its crew.”

Evacuation orders come as tensions escalate along Israeli-Lebanese border, with Israel stepping up cross-border attacks

Lebanese group says its fighters forced Israeli soldiers to retreat from town of Odaisseh

Hezbollah says it targeted deployments of Israeli soldiers in sites, settlements near border

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has launched a retaliatory attack as a barrage of resistance Katyusha rockets targeted an Israeli command center in the southern Lebanese regions.

Lebanon’s official news agency reported that two Civil Defence ambulances were damaged by Israeli shells in Wadi Hamoul, without causing any casualties.

Nine Lebanese civilians, including a mother and her two children, have been killed and five others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese resistance fighters have thwarted an Israeli military incursion into the southern part of Lebanon injuring a number of the regime forces before they carried out an offensive against Lebanese southern territories.