Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised a firm response: “The shooting constitutes a serious violation of the ceasefire, and Israel will respond with force.”
After the Hezbollah terrorist group broke the ceasefire on Monday after a mortar attack in the area of Mount Dov in northern Israel, the Israeli army announced an operation in Lebanon.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He had promised a firm response. “Hezbollah’s firing on Mount Dov constitutes a serious violation of the ceasefire, and Israel will respond with force,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
"We are determined to continue enforcing the ceasefire and to respond to any violation by Hezbollah: a small one will be treated as a serious one," the prime minister added.
Minutes earlier, Lebanese media reported a series of Israeli airstrikes in the south of Lebanon.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack on Israeli positions on Monday.
The attack hit the farms of Shebaa, a strip of land claimed by both Lebanon and Syria, but which remains under Israeli military control since 1967, the terrorist group explained in statements collected by the television channel Al manar, affiliated with Hezbollah.
Thus, he claimed his authorship, although he assured that the attack is actually a “defensive response” "repeated violations of the ceasefire that came into effect on November 27." He accused Israeli forces of violating the ceasefire "in various ways," including attacks against civilians and different regions of Lebanon.
"These attacks have resulted in civilian casualties and left innocent people injured, and continue to represent a violation of airspace by Israeli aircraft acting in a hostile manner," the terrorist group clarified.
“Since consultations with the responsible parties to end these violations have not yielded any results, the resistance has carried out its first defensive act of alert,” Hezbollah stressed.
Lebanese authorities denounced this morning a "flagrant" violation of the ceasefire by Israeli forces, which left at least one dead in an attack on the city of Marjayoun, in the southeast of the country, despite the fact that the parties have been making accusations of this kind for several days.
The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih berri, one of the negotiators of the agreement, warned of these violations and called on the “technical committee” made up of United States, French, UN mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the regular armies of Israel and Lebanon, responsible for supervising the implementation of the agreement, to study the situation.
Israel and Hezbollah reached a 60-day deal on Tuesday, which stipulates that both militants and Israeli troops must leave southern Lebanon in favour of the regular Lebanese army. However, the Israeli army itself has reported several operations against Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon in recent days and accused the group of violating the truce.
The upsurge in hostilities in Beirut and southern Lebanon comes as clashes began more than a year ago after Hezbollah attacked Israel a day after the Hamas offensive on October 7, 2023, which left nearly 1.200 dead and 240 hostages and served as a trigger for the current war in Middle East.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a new invasion of Lebanon on October 1 after weeks of intense bombing and attacks against the country. The attacks on Lebanon have decimated Hezbollah, which has lost its historic leader, Hasan NasrallahThis war left a provisional balance of around 4.000 dead and 16.500 wounded.
(With information from Europe Press)
Source: INFOBAE
The USA and France forced Israel to make a ceasefire agreement with a terrorist organization.
When it is known that the USA never dialogues with terrorists.
And when the rats do not abide by the agreement (what a surprise) they accuse Israel of violating the ceasefire.
Tom and Jerry as adults.
Terrorism cannot have a word if it does not have morals, and even less so communist Islamist terrorism. Hard on them ISRAEL, give them so they have and store AM ISRAEL JAI