A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect early Wednesday in Lebanon, after more than a year of cross-border hostilities and two months of open warfare between the Israeli army and the Lebanese armed movement backed by Iran.
The truce, valid since 4:00 a.m. Wednesday (02:00 GMT), is intended to interrupt the conflict which has forced tens of thousands of people in Israel and hundreds of thousands of others in Lebanon to flee their homes.
Tensions in the Middle East: Israeli army imposes nighttime curfew in southern Lebanon
Thursday noon, the Israeli army reported a previous incident and announced that it had “opened fire” towards “suspects (…) arriving with vehicles in a certain number of areas of southern Lebanon, not respecting the conditions of the ceasefire.
According to official Lebanese media, two people were injured Thursday in Israeli fire on a border village in southern Lebanon, where the Lebanese army continues its deployment without approaching areas where the Israeli army is still present and where it has imposed a nighttime curfew for the night from Thursday to Friday.
Under the agreement sponsored by the United States and France, the Israeli army has 60 days to gradually withdraw from Lebanon. Hezbollah must also retreat to the north of the Litani River, around thirty kilometers from the border, and dismantle its military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
