Israeli artillery and air strikes struck southern Lebanon on Saturday after Israel said that he had intercepted rockets drawn on the other side of the border, endangering a trembling truce that ended a one -year war between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
This conflict marked the deadliest overflow of the Gaza War, and an Israeli offensive dazzling after months of cross -border trade in the High Commander of Hezbollah, many of its fighters and a large part of its arsenal.
Hezbollah denied the responsibility of the strikes on Saturday, saying that it had “no link” to the rocket launches and that it remained attached to the ceasefire. No group claimed the responsibility of the attack.
An Israeli official said that the identity of the group that had drawn the rockets had not been confirmed. Six rockets were dismissed, said the manager, three of whom crossed Israel and were intercepted.
The exchange on Saturday was the first since Israel has in fact abandoned a separate ceasefire in Gaza with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, an ally of Hezbollah, both supported by the Arc of Israel, Iran.
Later in the day, the Israeli army announced a second cycle of strikes on what it said is targets of Hezbollah.
“We expect Lebanon to take care of its part of the agreement,” the Ophir Falk’s foreign policy advisor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Reuters.
“THE [Israel Defence Forces] will do everything you need to enforce the ceasefire and make sure our civilians can go home safely and safe, “said Falk.
The Israeli army said at the start on Saturday that it had intercepted three rockets launched in a Lebanese district about six kilometers north of the border towards the Israeli border city in Metula, the second cross-border launch from the American basic ceasefire in November ended.
In retaliation, Netanyahu ordered soldiers to “act forcefully against dozens of terrorist targets in Lebanon”.
The Israeli army said it had struck dozens of Hezbollah rocket launchers and a command center from which group activists operated in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanon press agency reported Israeli air strikes and artillery dams in the south of the country, including border cities and hills about eight kilometers inside Lebanese territory.
Two people were killed and eight injured by Israeli air strikes in the south near the border, said the news agency in the NNA, citing the Lebanon Ministry of Health.
There was no victims report in Israel.
“Serious consequences for the region”
By virtue of the November ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah should have no weapons in southern Lebanon, Israeli land troops were to withdraw and Lebanese army troops were to deploy in the region.
The agreement specifies that the Government of Lebanon is responsible for dismantling all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon and confiscating all unauthorized weapons.
Lebanese residents return to their hometown to save what they can from their properties, almost a week after the start of the ceasefire in Israel-Hezbollah. Margaret Evans de CBC spoke on Tuesday with people from Nabatiyeh, in southern Lebanon, who are impatient to rebuild their homes and businesses, but fear that the fragile truce will not be detained.
President Joseph Aoun ordered the Lebanese army to obtain “any violation” which could threaten stability in Lebanon. The army said it had found and dismantled three “primitive rocket launchers” in the south.
Netanyahu declared that Israel held the government of Lebanon responsible for “everything that happens on its territory” and that Israel would allow no harm to its citizens and its sovereignty.
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon said it was alarmed by the “volatile” situation and that any new escalation could have “serious consequences for the region”.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned against a renewal of military operations in southern Lebanon, adding: “All security and military measures must be taken to show that Lebanon decides on matters of war and peace.”
The ceasefire has ended intense bombing operations and Israel’s ground in Lebanon and Daily Rocket Dams in Hezbollah in Israel. Each party has accused the other of not having fully implemented the agreement.
Israel says Hezbollah still has military infrastructure in the South. Lebanon and Hezbollah say that Israel occupies Lebanese lands by continuing to make air strikes and keep its troops at the top of a hill near the border.
Child among those killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
In Gaza, health authorities said five Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fires, including a child, in Beit Lahiya and Gaza City incidents in the north of the enclave.
The Israeli army said that a number of activists in a vehicle had been identified as it approaches its troops in northern Gaza who “threatened” and that the military struck them.
An Israeli air strike in the city of Rafah, which brought the southern border of Gaza with Egypt, killed two Palestinians, said the doctors of Gazan. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
