Bangs heard, smoke billows through mountains in southern Lebanon

Record ID: 2366452

  • Title: Bangs heard, smoke billows through mountains in southern Lebanon
  • Date: 17th March 2026
  • Summary: MARJAYOUN, LEBANON (MARCH 17, 2026) (REUTERS) SMOKE BILLOWING IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, AS SEEN FROM MARJAYOUN / AUDIO OF BANGS VARIOUS OF SMOKE BILLOWING THROUGH MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, AS SEEN FROM MARJAYOUN SMOKE BILLOWING IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, AS SEEN FROM MARJAYOUN / AUDIO OF BANG BIRDS IN THE SKY VARIOUS OF SMOKE BILLOWING IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, AS SEEN FROM MARJAYOUN
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  • Keywords: Iran Israel Lebanon Marjayoun crisis smoke southern Lebanon strikes war
  • Location: MARJAYOUN, LEBANON
  • City: MARJAYOUN, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA001480017032026RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Smoke billowed through mountains in different areas in southern Lebanon on Tuesday (March 17), as bangs were heard from Marjayoun. 
    Israel's military, which has occupied five positions in southern Lebanon since a November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, sent additional forces into the country after Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets on March 2, dragging Lebanon into into an expanding regional war.
    Hezbollah, a Shi'ite Muslim group, said its attack was in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Israel has responded with an intensive bombing campaign on Lebanon.
    More than 880 people in Lebanon have been killed by Israeli attacks, according to Lebanon's health ministry, whose figures do not distinguish between fighters and civilians. More than 1 million people have been driven from their homes, many from the south as well as from areas near the capital, Beirut, and more than 130,000 are living in collective shelters, according to Lebanese authorities. Last week the United Nations launched a $308 million appeal to help Lebanon cope with the fallout of the war.
    (Production: Karamallah Daher, Hamuda Hassan, Vaishnavi Hajari)
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