BEIRUT, October 26. /TASS/. The Israeli military again shelled southern Lebanon with white phosphorous munitions, the Lebanese television channel Al-Manar reported on Thursday.

The shelling attack targeted the settlement of Ayta ash Shab, the TV channel reported, without giving any information on casualties.

The Israeli military also shelled areas west of Ayta ash Shab, causing fire in a forest belt close to the towns of Alma ash Shab and An Naqurah, Al Manar added.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the radical Palestinian Hamas movement staged a surprise attack on Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israel announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and began delivering missile strikes on the besieged Palestinian enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place on the West Bank of the Jordan River.