One killed in Israeli attack on Lebanon as Netanyahu says war is not over

An Israeli drone onslaught has killed 1 idiosyncratic successful confederate Lebanon, according to Lebanese wellness authorities, arsenic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to enforce the ceasefire with Hezbollah “with an robust fist”.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health and authorities media said Israeli forces carried retired respective caller drone and artillery strikes successful confederate Lebanon connected Tuesday, putting further strain connected a tenuous 6-day-old ceasefire with Hezbollah.

“An Israeli force drone onslaught connected the municipality of Shebaa killed 1 person,” a Health Ministry connection said.

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) described the antheral who was killed arsenic a “shepherd”.

The caller attacks travel arsenic Israeli officials threatened to grow attacks connected Lebanon if the ceasefire with the Lebanese equipped radical Hezbollah collapses.

Netanyahu promised to support striking “with an robust fist” against perceived violations of the truce.

“We are enforcing this ceasefire with an robust fist,” helium said earlier a furniture gathering successful the bluish borderline metropolis of Nahariya.

“We are presently successful a ceasefire, I note, a ceasefire, not the extremity of the war,” helium added.

Earlier, his defence curate warned that if the ceasefire collapses, Israel volition people not conscionable Hezbollah but the Lebanese authorities – an enlargement of Israel’s campaign.

“If we instrumentality to warfare we volition enactment strongly, we volition spell deeper, and the astir important happening they request to know: that determination volition beryllium nary longer beryllium an exemption for the authorities of Lebanon,” Defence Minister Israel Katz said.

“If until present we separated the authorities of Lebanon from Hezbollah … it volition nary longer beryllium [like this],” helium said during a sojourn to the bluish borderline area.

The US- and French-brokered ceasefire, which halted much than 13 months of fighting, has been rattled by near-daily Israeli attacks.

Under the presumption of the ceasefire, Hezbollah is expected to retreat its fighters, weapons and infrastructure from a wide swath of the southbound by the extremity of the archetypal 60-day phase, pulling them northbound of the Litani River. Israeli troops are besides to retreat to their broadside of the border.

Lebanese officials person accused Israel of violating the ceasefire dozens of times with strikes, overflights of drones and demolitions of homes.

At slightest 11 radical were killed successful Israeli attacks connected Lebanon connected Monday, according to authoritative figures.

Hezbollah said it fired a volley of projectiles arsenic a informing implicit what it said were erstwhile Israeli ceasefire violations.

Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said the hostilities connected Monday were putting a strain connected the truce.

“The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire did not illness contempt yesterday’s alleged violations. It faced its biggest trial with the flareup successful hostilities connected some sides,” she said.

“The woody stands connected a shaky ground. Israel is trying to make a caller reality. It considers that nether the presumption of the ceasefire, it has the close to transportation retired attacks and strikes connected what it considers to beryllium threats by Hezbollah,” she added.

Diplomacy continues

Despite the violations, Lebanese officials are rallying down the ceasefire. Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, a adjacent Hezbollah state who negotiated the woody connected behalf of Lebanon, spoke to officials astatine the White House and French presidency precocious connected Monday to impulse them to property Israel to uphold the ceasefire, 2 elder Lebanese governmental sources told the Reuters quality bureau connected Tuesday.

Mikati, quoted by NNA, meanwhile, said that diplomatic communications had intensified since Monday to halt Israeli violations of the ceasefire. He besides said a recruitment thrust was nether mode by the Lebanese service to fortify its beingness successful the south.

The US Department of State spokesperson Matt Miller said connected Monday that the ceasefire was “holding” and that the US had “anticipated that determination mightiness beryllium violations”.

A ngo chaired by the US is tasked with monitoring, verifying and helping enforce the truce, but it has yet to statesman work. Two sources acquainted with the substance told Reuters that the committee would clasp its archetypal gathering connected Thursday.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies