Most of the news around the war in the Middle East this Thursday, November 28.
Each day, Libé selects the most important news concerning the conflict in the Middle East.
IDF says it carried out airstrike on Hezbollah facility
The Israeli army announced Thursday that it had carried out an airstrike against a Hezbollah facility in southern Lebanon. The first since the establishment, the day before, of a still fragile truce. A fighter plane targeted “a forest area not accessible to civilians” in the town of Baïssariyé, said Nazih Eid, the mayor of this Lebanese locality located in the south. In a statement posted on Telegram, the Israeli military said around 3:30 p.m. “identified terrorist activity” In “a facility used by Hezbollah to store medium-range rockets in southern Lebanon”and have “thwarted the threat” with a military plane. The army adds that its forces “remain in southern Lebanon and act to enforce” the truce agreement. Thursday noon, the Israeli army reported a previous incident and announced that it had “opened fire” towards “suspects (..) arriving with vehicles in a number of areas of southern Lebanon, not respecting the conditions of the ceasefire”. In the process, the Lebanese army accused Israel of having “repeatedly violated the agreement” of ceasefire. “The army command is monitoring these violations in coordination with the relevant authorities,” assures the army.
Israeli army imposes nighttime curfew in southern Lebanon
The day after the truce came into force, the Israeli army announced this Thursday that it had imposed a nighttime curfew for the population in southern Lebanon. He is “strictly prohibited from moving or traveling south of the Litani River from 5 p.m. until 7 a.m. tomorrow” Friday, Arabic-language army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a message on X, urging those south of the river to “stay where they are”.
Hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel have left nearly 4,000 dead in 13 months
Lebanon’s Health Ministry announced Thursday that 3,961 people had been killed in 13 months of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, the vast majority during the last two months of the war that began in late September. “The total number of injured since the beginning of the aggression until Tuesday reached 16,520 [personnes]”, deplores the ministry’s press release, adding that the increase in the number of victims is also explained by the fact that bodies were removed from the rubble.
Lebanese Parliament to meet on January 9 to elect a president
The Lebanese Parliament will meet on January 9 to elect a President of the Republic, in the country without a head of state for more than two years, official media announced. Since the end of President Michel Aoun’s mandate on October 31, 2022, differences between powerful Hezbollah and its adversaries have prevented the election of a head of state, with neither camp having a majority in Parliament. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Najib Mikati expressed the hope that the ceasefire agreement would open “a new page” in the history of Lebanon and called for the rapid election of a president. Under Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, the presidency of Lebanon is reserved for a Maronite Christian, the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament is a Shiite Muslim.
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