This Thursday, November 28, the IDF struck South Lebanon several times, the day after the ceasefire between the Israeli and Lebanese authorities came into force. Claiming to have “ identified terrorist activity » of Hezbollah, the Israeli army thus justified new bombings, striking the town of Tebna with a drone and initiating shelling west of Meis-el-Jabal.
After 13 months of conflict, 2 months of open war and several thousand deaths, Israel does not seem ready to end its aggression against Lebanon, despite the truce agreement, ratified barely a day earlier. An attack all the more cynical as thousands of residents who fled the fighting took the road south to return home after the announcement of the ceasefire.
Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu recalled that Israel retained “total freedom of military action”. Taking advantage of the terms of the agreement, which are very favorable to it, and the vagueness deliberately maintained on the ” right to self-defense » of the two States, Israel is already using the flaws in the text to launch new attacks.
These new bombings further testify to the bottomless hypocrisy of the imperialist powers. Joe Biden affirmed, Tuesday evening, that the agreement was designed “ for a permanent cessation of hostilities » while Macron spoke of a “ new page » for Lebanon. Participating in the ratification of the agreement, the imperialist powers, first and foremost France and the United States, imposed on Lebanon a dupe agreement which leaves Israel complete latitude to continue its operations.
While Israel signed a ceasefire to replenish its ammunition stocks, weakened by months of endless war on several fronts, in Gaza and the West Bank, in Syria and Lebanon, the mobilizations for Palestine remain intact. their strategic importance. While Israel has never been more dependent on the imperialist powers that militarily, economically and morally support its offensives in the Middle East, they have the potential to end arms deliveries and Western support, hampering the aggression against Lebanon and to put an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people.
