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The Israeli army published a map Sunday showing the full extent of its occupation zone in southern Lebanon, confirming that five divisions and naval forces are simultaneously operating south of what it calls the "Forward Defense Line" to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also ordered the Israeli forces to use "full force" in Lebanon even during the 10-day ceasefire, and residents of Nabatieh described devastating civilian losses.
The Israeli army's official statement accompanying the map said: "At present, five divisions, alongside Israeli Navy forces, are operating simultaneously south of the Forward Defense Line in southern Lebanon in order to dismantle Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites and prevent direct threats to communities in northern Israel."
The zone shown on the map stretches from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the slopes of Mount Hermon in the east, encompassing dozens of Lebanese villages and towns including Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh, Khiam, Maroun al-Ras, Aitaroun, Yaroun and Deir Mimas, among others.
The Litani River and Saluki Valley are marked as reference lines within the controlled territory.
Lebanon's official news agency NNA reported that Israeli forces carried out demolitions using explosives in Bayada and Nakura after midnight, despite the ceasefire being in force.
Speaking at a function in the occupied West Bank, Defense Minister Katz said: "Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have instructed the Israeli army to act with full force, both on the ground and from the air, including during the ceasefire, in order to protect our soldiers in Lebanon from any threat."
He said structures and roads that were booby-trapped and posed a threat to soldiers would be demolished, and reiterated the goal of removing "houses in the villages near the border that served in every respect as Hezbollah terror outposts and threatened Israeli communities."
Katz noted that an Israeli soldier had been killed on Friday, the day the ceasefire took effect, when he entered a booby-trapped building.
He said the Israeli army operations would continue "through a combination of military and diplomatic measures" and warned: "If the Lebanese government continues to fail to uphold its obligations, the Israeli army will do so through continued military action."
About 150 residents of Kiryat Shmona traveled to Jerusalem on Sunday to protest the ceasefire, saying Hezbollah had not been disarmed.
"It's time to remove this threat from over the heads of the northern residents," said the city's mayor, Avichai Stern.
Protester Einat Dardari said she was "very disappointed" that the military had been forced to halt its offensive.
Türkiye's state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) reporters on the ground in Nabatieh documented the scale of civilian destruction in the city, which was targeted from March 2 until the April 17 ceasefire.
The Nabatieh government building and the State Security Office were struck on April 10, a week before the ceasefire, killing 13 Lebanese security personnel. The mother of one of those killed told AA: "We are tired of war. This war was not started by us, it was imposed on us. Every time Israel attacked us, our children were martyred while doing their national duty."
Lebanese resident Muhammed Shebib, who lost his son in an Israeli strike on a six-story residential building, said: "This was a 12-apartment civilian building. My son was killed. My other son was wounded. Look at the belongings of civilians, we are ordinary people. I retrieved my son's body from the rubble five days later."
He disputed that the building had any military purpose.
"There are glasses, medical supplies, oxygen machines for patients, wheelchairs. There is no military ammunition here. But they don't care. What they are doing to us is not even a quarter of what they did in Gaza. This is a state that feeds on blood," he said.
A Lebanese shopkeeper said the attack destroyed 28 years of work, saying, "It was Ramadan. We had brought in a lot of clothing and goods from Türkiye. The attack took away 28 years of labor, of memories."
"We educated our children through this shop. Everything can be compensated, Allah willing we will open a better one," he said.
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