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Israeli escalation in southern Lebanon and the first use of Apache helicopters in the daily strikes

Southern Lebanon witnessed continued Israeli escalation on 27 September 2026, including airstrikes, artillery shelling, house demolitions and gunfire in several areas. The escalation included the first use of Apache combat helicopters in the Israeli daily strikes, with a focus on the town of Mayfadoun and its surroundings in the Nabatieh district, where the same building was hit by two successive strikes. No information on casualties or damage was reported in the available reports.

📍 Where things stand: The Israeli escalation in southern Lebanon continues, with intermittent artillery shelling on the outskirts of Zawtar al-Sharqiya and Mayfadoun and continued airstrikes and shelling in the Nabatieh district, with no information on casualties.

⏱️ Timeline

27 Sep 2026, 11:32 Al-Hadath channel reported two Israeli strikes on the town of Mayfadoun in southern Lebanon amid continued escalation in the area, with no information on human or material losses.
27 Sep 2026, 11:50 An Israeli army attack helicopter struck a building between the villages of Mayfadoun and Shawkin in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon, according to a Hebrew breaking-news site, and the helicopter was reported to be still hovering over the building.
27 Sep 2026, 12:28 An Israeli Apache helicopter targeted a commercial center in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon, in the first declared use of attack helicopters within the Israeli daily strikes according to Lebanese media, and a second Apache strike hit the same site less than 10 minutes later in a residential area, with no immediate information on casualties or damage. A Merkava tank also fired four shells at Haddatha. Al-Jadeed channel published a video documenting an Apache helicopter strike in southern Lebanon, without further details on the location of the strike, its targets or the extent of the damage.
27 Sep 2026, 12:32 Kan Hebrew channel reported that an Apache helicopter belonging to the Israeli Air Force carried out two strikes on a shop at the western entrance of the village of Mayfadoun in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon.
27 Sep 2026, 15:20 At dawn on Sunday the Israeli army carried out airstrikes, house demolitions, artillery shelling and gunfire in several areas in southern Lebanon, using Apache combat helicopters for the first time in its daily attacks, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. The attacks covered towns in the Tyre, Nabatieh, Marjayoun and Bint Jbeil districts, including Mansouri, Wadi Zabqin, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Mayfadoun, Kafr Tebnit, Beit Yahoun and Haddatha. The Israeli army said its attacks came in response to Hezbollah firing.
27 Sep 2026, 16:30 The Israeli escalation in southern Lebanon continued this afternoon with intermittent artillery shelling that hit the outskirts of the towns of Zawtar al-Sharqiya and Mayfadoun, originating from the Israeli artillery position at Tal al-Nahas. An ambulance team from Bayt al-Tullab, the Islamic Health Authority and the Nabatieh ambulance service survived a second strike carried out by an Apache helicopter on a commercial building on the Mayfadoun–Shawkin road, after they had been at the site for a field inspection following a first strike that targeted the same building less than half an hour earlier.

Timeline written by AI from the sources below; updated as new reports arrive.

⚠️ Sources disagree

Time interval between the first and second strike on the same site

A second Apache strike hit the same site less than 10 minutes later according to شفق نيوز
A first strike targeted the same building less than half an hour earlier according to Lebanon Debate

Description of the target and site hit by the Apache strike

a commercial center in the Nabatieh district according to شفق نيوز
a shop at the western entrance of the village of Mayfadoun (citing Kan channel) according to المترجم احمد المقادمة
a building between the villages of Mayfadoun and Shawkin in the Nabatieh district (citing a Hebrew breaking-news site) according to المترجم احمد المقادمة
a commercial building on the Mayfadoun–Shawkin road according to Lebanon Debate

Figures as each outlet reported them at the time. We do not judge which is correct; numbers often change as events develop.

How the sources covered it

Coverage varied between a focus on the first use of Apache helicopters and the details of the strikes in the Nabatieh district (Shafaq News and the translator Ahmed al-Maqadma), a focus on the broad scope of the attacks at dawn on Sunday and the Israeli army's account (Al Jazeera Net), and a focus on the artillery shelling and the ambulance teams' survival of the second strike (Lebanon Debate), while two outlets limited themselves to a brief news item or a video without details (Al-Hadath and Al-Jadeed).

الحدث It led with a brief report on two Israeli strikes on the town of Mayfadoun amid continued escalation, and included no information on human or material losses.
المترجم احمد المقادمة It relied on Hebrew media, citing a Hebrew breaking-news site for an attack helicopter striking a building between Mayfadoun and Shawkin, and Kan channel for two strikes on a shop at the western entrance of Mayfadoun.
شفق نيوز It highlighted the first declared use of Apache helicopters in the daily strikes and a second strike on the same site less than 10 minutes later, noting that a Merkava tank fired four shells at Haddatha.
aljadeed It limited itself to publishing a video documenting an Apache helicopter strike in southern Lebanon, with no details on the strike's location, targets or the extent of damage.
الجزيرة نت It provided the broadest coverage, citing the Lebanese National News Agency for the tally of attacks at dawn on Sunday (airstrikes, house demolitions, artillery shelling and gunfire) in the Tyre, Nabatieh, Marjayoun and Bint Jbeil districts, and noting that the Israeli army said its attacks came in response to Hezbollah firing.
Lebanon Debate It focused on the intermittent afternoon artillery shelling on the outskirts of Zawtar al-Sharqiya and Mayfadoun from the Tal al-Nahas position, and on an ambulance team surviving the second Apache strike on a commercial building on the Mayfadoun–Shawkin road during its field inspection.