The truce is faltering in Lebanon, less than a week after it came into force. At least eleven people, including a Lebanese state security agent, were killed in Israeli aerial bombardments on Monday, December 2. Among them, nine were killed in the evening, after an intensification of strikes in the south of the country, while the capital, Beirut, was flown over at low altitude by drones and returned to the incessant buzzing of Israeli surveillance devices which poisoned the daily lives of residents for two months, before the ceasefire came into force on November 27.
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At the beginning of the afternoon, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing several rockets towards the area known as the Shebaa Farms, a narrow strip of land in the far South-East occupied by Israel and which Lebanon claims. Of the “warning shots”according to a press release from the Party of God, in reaction “repeated violations” of the ceasefire agreement by the Jewish state. This was the first operation claimed by the Shiite movement since the ceasefire came into force. Israeli shootings and bombings have been recorded almost daily since that date.
Monday, the day began under bad auspices in the south of the country and in the Bekaa plain, although far from the front. Two men, including a state security agent, were killed by an Israeli drone strike in the Marjayoun region, close to the border, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Another drone targeted a Lebanese military post in Hermel, in the eastern Bekaa plain, injuring a soldier, according to the Lebanese army.
“Force Israel to withdraw”
The Israeli army claimed to have “targeted military vehicles operating in the area of a Hezbollah missile manufacturing site”. She added that she hit sites “used for arms smuggling near the Syrian-Lebanese border in the Hermel region”and having led “several strikes in response to Hezbollah terrorists” in southern Lebanon.
In the evening, the Israeli army announced that it had struck dozens of Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, including “terrorist launch pads and infrastructure”. Previously, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described « violation grave » the shooting of the Lebanese militia towards a contested area on the borders of Lebanon and the part of the Syrian Golan occupied and annexed by Israel, promising to “react with force”.
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