The Israeli army announced that it had attacked Hezbollah military infrastructure near border crossing points between Syria and Lebanon, which it said were “ actively used » by the Shiite party for “ transfer weapons “. This raid illustrates the fragility of the ceasefire concluded between Lebanon and Israel on November 27 after two months of open war, which left 3,900 dead and nearly 17,000 injured in the land of cedar.
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THE Israeli violations of the agreement ceasefires are multiplying Lebanonslowing down the return of displaced people and hindering the deployment of the Lebanese army, underlines our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh. An Israeli drone targeted a car this Saturday morning in the Tire region, and four shells fell on the town of Khiam, in the eastern sector of the border.
Three people, including a seven-year-old child, were injured in an Israeli strike against a vehicle in Majdal Zoun, in the south of the country, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said in a press release this Saturday. The Israeli Air Force also carried out a raid on “ military infrastructure sites near crossing points between Syria and Lebanon, used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons from Syria to Lebanon », after the ceasefire agreement came into force on Wednesday, according to a military press release.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, November 30, the Israeli army launched flares and fired bursts of machine guns against several localities, while the overflight of Lebanese territory by drones continues.
Israeli interpretation of ceasefire agreement called into question
Lebanese political and military sources explain the multiplication of violations by will from Israel to impose its interpretation of the ceasefire agreement, after more than a year of cross-border hostilities and two months of open war between the Israeli army and the Lebanese armed movement supported by Iran.
Sponsored by the United States and Francethe agreement provides for the withdrawal within sixty days of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah must retreat to the north of the Litani River, approximately 30 kilometers from the Israeli-Lebanese border, and dismantle its military infrastructure in the south of the country.
The ceasefire agreement does not grant the Jewish state freedom of action on Lebanese territory, but Israel maintains that this right is contained in an annex which serves as guarantees, signed with the United States . However, Lebanon is not a signatory to this annex and does not consider itself concerned by its content which constitutes, according to it, a violation of its national sovereignty.
The head of the army, Joseph Aoun, expressed his fears from the continuation of Israeli violations to the American general supposed to lead the committee supervising the application of the ceasefire agreement. The officer, who arrived in Beirut on Friday, promised to raise the issue with the Israeli side.
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