‘Multiple’ Israeli airstrikes hit south Lebanon in breach of ceasefire

Israel has committed new violations of the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, including through airstrikes on the country's east which left at least two people dead.

Israel's military on Friday said it struck "multiple" targets in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, two months into the fragile ceasefire with the Lebanese resistance group.

The targets that were struck included a Hezbollah site containing underground infrastructure, used to develop and manufacture weaponry and additional infrastructure sites on the Syrian-Lebanese border, the military claimed.

Lebanon's civil defense announced that "two people were martyred and nine were injured in the Israeli airstrike in the Beqaa area in eastern Lebanon, which violated the ceasefire".

According to Lebanon's al-Manar television, the village of Janta was targeted in the airstrike. 

Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli forces set fire to a poultry farm near Tal Nahas on Thursday.

According to the agency, an Israeli artillery attack also targeted the outskirts of the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.

Further violations included a drone attack on the ruins of a house, which was already destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, at the northern entrance to the town of Yahmar al-Shaqif on Wednesday night.

The Israeli forces also continued to burn and destroy houses in Ras al-Dahr, west of the town of Meiss al-Jabal.

They opened fire on a house in the border town of Ramish, as well as Lebanese people and an ambulance belonging to the Islamic Risala Scout Association at the entrance to Maroun al-Ras.

Another ambulance, which was trying to transport injured people, was seized in the area.

On Wednesday night, the Israeli troops kidnapped four Lebanese people who were checking on their home on the outskirts of Maroun al-Ras, and shot and injured two others in the area.

According to the NNA, the Israeli forces also advanced 100 meters from the position of the Lebanese army at the western entrance to Meiss al-Jabal, bypassing a center of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

After bypassing the UNIFIL base, Israeli bulldozer, backed by a Merkava tank, raised mounds of earth in the middle of the road in the Mafailah neighborhood, according to the report.

Meanwhile, Israeli drones flew over the capital Beirut and the southern suburbs at low altitudes.

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According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, eight people were injured in total, including five people in Majdal Selim and two in Maroun al-Ras.

On Wednesday, the head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to the Resistance parliament bloc, Mohammad Raad, slammed the international community over its inaction on the Israeli violations of the ceasefire.

“The chronic international indifference to the transgressions of this usurping entity and its persistence in attacks” has emboldened Israel to commit more violations of all international and humanitarian rules, standards and laws, he said.

He stressed the Lebanese people’s “legitimate” right to confront the Israeli aggression.

The occupying regime was forced to accept the truce with Hezbollah after suffering heavy losses on the battleground and failing to achieve its goals in its aggression on Lebanon.

Lebanese health authorities report that since October 2023, over 4,000 people had been killed and more than 16,500 injured due to Israeli attacks, with over 1 million others displaced.

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