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Israel bombs Hezbollah military targets in Lebanon and on its border with Syria

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Photo: Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced early this morning that it had bombed a series of positions of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, including its border with Syria, where it attacked arms trafficking routes.

“In the past few hours, the Israel Defense Forces carried out intelligence-based strikes against several targets in Lebanon,” a military statement said, citing a rocket launching position, a military base and arms trafficking routes for Hezbollah on the Syrian border.

Israel said it had raised the threat posed by the targets attacked to the truce monitoring mechanism, but that the body had failed to address the threats.

“The Lebanese Armed Forces did not take charge of these threats,” an Israeli military spokesman briefly clarified, explaining the air strikes carried out against the backdrop of a fragile ceasefire.

The Mechanism for the Implementation and Monitoring of the Ceasefire in Lebanon, chaired by the United States, also includes the Lebanese Armed Forces, the Israel Defense Forces, the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) and France.

The Lebanese National News Agency (ANN) reported last night several airstrikes in Lebanese territory, concentrated around the towns of Houmine al Faouqa and Deir al Zahrani, in southern Lebanon.

Both are located north of the Litani River, which marks the boundary (from the Israel-Lebanon border) of the zone to be demilitarized following the ceasefire agreement, and which had already been established as a disarmament zone by UN Security Council Resolution 1701 following the 2006 war.

In addition to these towns, the ANN reported an attack in the vicinity of Janta, in the centre of the country and close to the border with Syria.

So far, there are no known fatalities from the attacks.

"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to act to eliminate any threat against the State of Israel and will prevent any attempt by the terrorist organization Hezbollah to reconstitute its forces in accordance with the ceasefire agreements," the military statement concluded.

The fragile ceasefire agreement was signed on November 27 and stipulates the withdrawal of the Iranian-sponsored terrorist organization Hezbollah from the strip between the Litani River and the common border, as well as a reinforcement of the Lebanese army's presence in the area.

One of the main objectives of this deployment is to ensure that no non-state entity possesses weapons in the border region, primarily Hezbollah, as stipulated in the UN Security Council resolution that ended the previous war in 2006.

For the Israeli side, the agreement provides for its withdrawal from Lebanese areas, although this and the rest of the points of the agreement are far from being completed two weeks before the end of the 60-day period stipulated for this.

Agencies contributed to this Aurora article

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