Israel launches heavy airstrikes on southern, eastern Lebanon in major escalation – Middle East Monitor

Israeli warplanes launched a series of heavy airstrikes Thursday on southern and eastern Lebanon, hitting areas in the Bekaa Valley and the districts of Baalbek and Jezzine, in a sharp escalation and new breaches of a ceasefire agreement.

In southern Lebanon, Israeli jets struck the towns of Mahmoudiyeh and Khardali in the Jezzine district with three raids and carried out three additional strikes near the town of Jarmaq in the same region, the Lebanese state news…