{"id":13802,"date":"2026-05-26T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/israel-military-operation-lebanon-hezbollah-drone-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:45:23","slug":"israel-military-operation-lebanon-hezbollah-drone-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/israel-military-operation-lebanon-hezbollah-drone-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Considers Extensive Military Operation in Lebanon Amid Rising Hezbollah Drone Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following an increase in Hezbollah&#8217;s drone attacks on Israeli positions, Israeli sources have reported the possibility of launching a large-scale military operation against broader areas in Lebanon. According to these sources, the Israeli army is reviewing a plan called &#8220;Fire Arrows,&#8221; which could expand the scope of conflict to much wider parts of Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah has carried out targeted attacks on Israeli military positions using suicide micro-drones equipped with fiber-optic (FPV) guidance systems. These drones are difficult to track due to their guidance technology and have reportedly caused significant damage to Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this situation, Israel&#8217;s security cabinet held an emergency meeting yesterday. In this session, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Interior Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir proposed bombing Lebanon&#8217;s electrical infrastructure and some buildings in Beirut as retaliation for the drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Smotrich also suggested that for every drone attack, ten buildings in Beirut should be completely destroyed; a proposal that could have extensive humanitarian and political consequences. Given the dense population in Lebanon&#8217;s capital, any expansion of attacks to urban areas is likely to increase civilian casualties and worsen the regional crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions continue to escalate along Lebanon&#8217;s southern borders amid growing fears that the conflict between the two sides could escalate into a full-scale war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel considers a large-scale military operation in Lebanon following increased Hezbollah drone attacks targeting Israeli positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}