Israel is increasingly operating in parts of Lebanon which are not widely populated by Shias, who are most likely to support Hizbullah. This is stoking fears that Israel hopes to inflame Lebanon’s long-standing sectarian divisions and thus foment political change.

At least 216 displaced Syrian nationals have lost their lives in Israeli aggressions against Lebanon since mid-September, Damascus media reported today.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon on Friday accused the Israeli military of "deliberate and direct destruction" of its property. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said two excavators and one bulldozer belonging to the Israeli army destroyed part of a fence and a concrete structure in a UNIFIL position in the border area of Ras Naqoura on Thursday.

The Israeli military has not issued a statement on the latest attacks yet. Israeli forces have been intensely bombing Lebanon since late September and trying to make ground incursions into its southern and eastern regions,