Israel attacks Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, violates ceasefire deal again

In the 2 months from November 27 to Monday, Israel killed astatine slightest 83 radical successful Lebanon

Israel has launched a question of attacks connected Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley successful its latest breach of a fragile ceasefire statement with the Hezbollah group.

The Israeli service said connected Friday it struck “multiple” Hezbollah targets successful the country adjacent the borderline with Syria successful the east, arsenic tensions escalated pursuing its hold of a caller deadline for removing its troops from the country.

The service claimed that the sites it targeted successful the overnight onslaught see “underground infrastructure utilized to make and manufacture weaponry” and sites connected the borderline utilized to “smuggle weaponry into Lebanon”.

Israel was expected to implicit its army’s withdrawal from Lebanon by January 26 nether a ceasefire statement with Hezbollah agreed past November. However, it refused to bash truthful and the deadline was past extended to February 18.

Under the presumption of the ceasefire, the Lebanese service is to deploy successful the southbound arsenic Hezbollah pulls its forces backmost northbound of the Litani River, immoderate 30km (20 miles) from the border.

Israel made wide it had nary volition of gathering the deadline, claiming that the Lebanese service had not fulfilled its broadside of the bargain.

In the 2 months from November 27 to Monday, Israel killed astatine slightest 83 radical successful Lebanon, according to information obtained from Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.

At slightest 228 were besides injured arsenic displaced residents tried to instrumentality to villages wherever Israeli soldiers stay stationed.

Earlier this week, arsenic thousands of radical successful Lebanon tried to instrumentality to their homes, Israeli forces killed astatine slightest 24 successful confederate Lebanon.

This week, Lebanese media reported repeated violations of the ceasefire statement by the Israeli military, including attacks connected the municipality of Taybeh and colony of Kfar Kila, some connected the borderline with Israel.

The astir caller drone onslaught injured astatine slightest 5 radical successful the confederate Lebanese municipality of Majdal Selem connected Wednesday, the Reuters quality bureau reported.

From the opening of the struggle connected October 8, 2023 to November 26, 2024, Israeli forces killed astatine slightest 3,961 radical crossed Lebanon and injured much than 16,520.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies