The Israeli army targeted a vehicle in the town of Aytaroun in southern Lebanon, which was carrying a Lebanese driver and seven Syrian agricultural workers, resulting in their entrapment. A correspondent for "Al-Manar" reported that "the mayor of Aytaroun is making calls to evacuate the Lebanese driver and the seven Syrian workers who were targeted by enemy gunfire while trying to transport hundreds of chickens from a farm near the border in the Battom area."
Residents of the border town of Alma al-Shaab urged the "UNIFIL" forces, the Lebanese army, and civil defense to intervene quickly and extinguish the fires that erupted due to the Israeli shelling, which consumed large areas of the town's vineyards and threatened homes. Mayor of Alma al-Shaab, Jan Ghafri, told the Agence France-Presse, "The fire reached the outskirts of the town shortly after midnight and is still ongoing, approaching the vicinity of several houses." He explained that "teams from the mentioned entities, along with volunteers from the town, are battling the flames but have not been able to control them so far due to the strong winds."
The Israeli army continues to launch incendiary shells onto wooded and agricultural areas in southern Lebanon in an effort to ignite fires in the border forests near the town of Aita al-Shaab. A cautious calm prevailed along the southern border after a relatively quiet night, with no significant security developments reported in the border villages and towns. Additionally, reconnaissance and combat aircraft flew multiple times in the morning, and fires broke out around Aita al-Shaab due to Israeli shelling with phosphorus bombs.
Around eleven o'clock, Israeli artillery targeted the outskirts of the town of Bliida with two 155 mm shells, aiming to intimidate farmers picking olives near the border strip. The Red Cross announced in a statement that its teams had transferred, shortly after midnight on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, from the vicinity of the town of Yaroun to the governmental hospital in Bint Jbeil, two bodies and six injured individuals who were targeted by Israeli shelling, with this operation carried out in coordination with the Lebanese army and UNIFIL forces.
In contrast, "Hezbollah" mourned in a statement today those of "Hussein Muhammad Ali Hariri 'Salman' from the city of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, and Ali Ibrahim Jawad 'Damai' from the town of Labbaia in the Beqaa."
