Five days after the entry into force of a truce between the Hebrew State and Lebanon, at the end of more than a year of cross-border hostilities and two months of open war, the Israeli army is increasing its violations of ceasefire agreement, arguing reasons “safe”disturbing the precarious calm that reigns in the south of the country.
Curfew south of Litani
France, which sponsors the agreement alongside the United States, has already reported in the last 24 hours 52 alleged violations of the ceasefire by the Israeli army and accuses Israel of bypassing the international committee responsible for ensuring the respect of the agreement, report Israeli media, including Yedioth Ahronoth and i24News.
As of Wednesday, the army, through its Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, imposed a curfew (from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m.) south of the Litani River. Before drawing, on Friday, a geographical area around ten kilometers wide north of the border with Lebanon, where residents are prohibited from moving or returning home, citing around sixty villages. “Anyone traveling south of this line is exposed to danger,” he assured X.
On the same day, Israeli aircraft bombed “military infrastructure sites” near a crossing point on the border between Syria and Lebanon. These infrastructures “were actively used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons from Syria to Lebanon after the ceasefire agreement came into force” Wednesday, “posing a de facto threat to the State of Israel”, she justifies in a press release published on Telegram. The Jewish state army also opened fire on residents attending a funeral in Khiam, according to Lebanon's National News Agency (Ani).
Drone buzzing
For Saturday alone, the Israeli army announced that it had carried out four strikes, including one targeting “a Hezbollah installation (…) in the Saida region”, the large city in southern Lebanon. She also said she targeted “a military vehicle operating near a Hezbollah rocket manufacturing site.” Three people, including a 7-year-old child, were injured in a strike against a vehicle in Majdal Zoun, in the south of the country, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said. In addition, an Israeli raid left two dead and two injured in Rab El-Thalathine, near Marjeyoun, in southern Lebanon, reports the Ani agency, citing a correspondent on site.
Beyond these violations, it is above all the return of the drone of drones flying over Lebanese territory which is causing concern among residents after a few days of silence. “The sounds of Israeli drones are heard again in Beirut on the fourth day of the ceasefire. They had disappeared,” writes Lebanese journalist Wael Taleb on X. “Reconnaissance drones fly over the capital at low altitude,” agrees Mohamad Chreyteh, director of the Beirut office of the media Deutsche Welle, on the social network. Israeli fighter jets also flew over the town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon, according to the local daily L'Orient-Le Jour.
Described by the Lebanese army as « violations » of the ceasefire agreement, these attacks are enough to raise many doubts about the solidity of the truce. They demonstrate Tel Aviv's desire to retain the possibility of intervening at will on Lebanese territory via targeted strikes, as has been the case in neighboring Syria for years, in the name of its ” security “.
