Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 04.08.2026
The Zionist army is becoming entrenched deep in southern Lebanon, according to information obtained by Haaretz, field patrols and up-to-date satellite photographs. According to Haaretz, the IDF has occupied an area of about 600 square kilometers in Lebanon, which in various parts reaches up to 12 kilometers from the Israeli border. In this area, the Zionist army established at least seven new bases and prepared many kilometers of logistical roads.
Similar to the IDF’s entrenchment inside the Gaza Strip, in Lebanon, the army is also conducting infrastructure work in the territory it occupied. Along the way from the Israeli border and deep into southern Lebanon, many engineering tools are employed – excavators, road presses and D-9 bulldozers – which are operated, among other things, by civilians who work as contractors.
Most of the soldiers, the Zionists, are still staying in civilian buildings in villages in southern Lebanon. According to satellite images taken by the Airbus satellite company and Haaretz.
One of the focal points where the Zionist monster’s army operates is the town of Al-Khiam, 5 kilometers north of the Israeli border. At the point where the base was built, al-Khiam Prison once stood. After the resumption of hostilities in March of this year, the IDF demolished the prison building. Satellite images from June show engineering tools at the site, and in July you can already see an organized base, with an elevated dirt shield, trenches along which soldiers can move in a relatively protected manner, and protection nets against explosive drones. At the same time as the base was being built, the IDF demolished the vast majority of the structures in the town of al-Khiam. According to the military, about 20,000 people were living there on the eve of the resumption of fighting.
Another base was built in the village of Maroun a-Ras, about two kilometers from the Israeli border. There, too, the IDF demolished the vast majority of the structures in the village.
The destruction is in line with the remarks of Minister of War Yisrael Katz at a Channel 14 conference, who said that Israel had destroyed 24 Shiite villages in southern Lebanon. “We destroyed all the buildings, not house to house, and in all these villages their demolition was completed, 15,000-20,000 houses,” the minister said. Last month, Katz said that 200,000 Lebanese would not return to their homes. In April, a senior defense official told Haaretz that “we need to create awareness of scorched earth.”
The Zionist army established five bases near the border after the ceasefire with Hezbollah in October 2024. In recent weeks, a soldier or civilian who was in one of the concentrations of forces posted photos that reveal what an outpost looks like up close.
The rest of the bases have been established since the resumption of hostilities in March of this year, deeper into Lebanese territory. In addition to the bases that are being built, the IDF has seized control points in southern Lebanon, including the Beaufort fortress, which sits at the top of the Ali Taher ridge – about 10 kilometers from the border. Defense Minister Katz stressed that Israel will not withdraw from the Beaufort. The Zionist army also announced that it had taken control of the Christophanie Ridge. In addition, the IDF has trained and breached 32 kilometers of traffic arteries intended to be used for transporting logistics within the Yellow Line.
In April, the Zionist army presented a map of the Yellow Line in Lebanon, and in the months since, the army has expanded the area under its control, as can be seen in the latest map published by the army spokesperson in June. The size of the area occupied by the IDF in Lebanon is 602 square kilometers, according to Haaretz’s calculations. According to Defense Minister Katz, the size of the occupied territory is 700 square kilometers.
Despite Lebanon’s campaign of conquest, in June Israel and Lebanon signed a US-brokered agreement designed to pave the way for “an end to the conflict and a long-term peace” between the two countries. According to the agreement, the Lebanese army will restore its sovereign authority over all of Lebanon’ s territory, subject to a verified disarming of Hezbollah and the dismantling of its infrastructure. This step is supposed to allow the IDF to gradually withdraw from Lebanese territory. The agreement stipulated that its implementation would begin with a pilot in two locations in the Yellow Line area.
Anyone who believes that Israel will withdraw from the territories it has occupied is a fool or a liar who believes his lies.
Netanyahu said that in accordance with the agreement, Israel would maintain a security zone in Lebanon “until Hezbollah disarms and there is no threat to Israel from Lebanon,” and Defense Minister Katz said he had instructed the IDF to “build as many outposts in southern Lebanon as necessary, as if we would stay there for 50 years.”
In response to the agreement, Hezbollah said that the Lebanese government had no legitimacy and that the implementation of the agreement was a “gift to the Israeli enemy” that would lead to civil war. Israel occupied Lebanon in the 1982 war and Hezbollah drove it out in 2000.