In the middle of the ceasefire, Israel strikes Hezbollah

The Israeli army announced that it had carried out several airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon and on the Syrian-Lebanese border, three days after the entry into force of a truce with the Lebanese Islamist movement.

In a press release, she mentions four strikes, including one targeting a Hezbollah installation with rocket launchers in the Saida regiona large city in southern Lebanon which is located about thirty kilometers from the Litani River, to the north of which Hezbollah must withdraw under the ceasefire agreement.

The Israeli army also announced that it had struck sites on the Syrian-Lebanese border on Saturday used, according to it, by Lebanese Hezbollah to transport weapons.

The Air Force carried out a raid on military infrastructure sites near crossing points between Syria and Lebanon used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons from Syria to Lebanonafter the ceasefire agreement came into force on Wednesday, according to a military press release.

That poses a de facto threat to the State of Israeladded the same source.

In Lebanon, where its forces are present in the south of the country, the Israeli army claimed to have located and confiscated weapons that were hidden in a mosque by Hezbollah terrorists in this region, and having led operations to remove suspects.

The official Lebanese agency ANI reported for its part drone strike on car near town of Majdal Zounin southern Lebanon. She also reported shelling on Khiam, a border village, where automatic weapons fire was heard.

Furthermore, the agency reported intermittent artillery fire on the outskirts of the village of Chaqra, also in southern Lebanon.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect on Wednesday, after more than a year of cross-border hostilities and two months of open war between the Israeli army and the Lebanese armed movement supported by Iran.

Sponsored by the United States and France, the ceasefire agreement provides for the withdrawal within 60 days of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah, for its part, must retreat to the north of the Litani River, approximately 30 kilometers from the Israeli-Lebanese border, and dismantle its military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.

Israel said it reserved complete freedom of military action in Lebanon, if Hezbollah violates the agreement and tries to rearm.

A new death toll of 44,382 in Gaza

The Hamas government’s Health Ministry for Gaza announced Friday a new death toll of 44,382 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel more than a year ago.

At least 19 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, he said in a statement, adding that 105,142 people had been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, sparked by an unprecedented Hamas attack. against Israel, October 7, 2023.

Israeli strike kills three aid workers in Khan Younes

The Civil Defense of the Palestinian enclave announced on Saturday the death of three humanitarian workers in a strike in Khan Younes (south), the Israeli army claiming to have targeted a terrorist.

The humanitarians, Palestinians, worked for theONG American World Central Kitchen (WCK), according to Civil Defense. When contacted, the humanitarian organization, whose seven colleagues were killed in April in Gaza, did not respond immediately.

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The Israeli army said in a statement that it had carried out a strike on a vehicle in which was a terrorist who participated in the October 7 massacreadding that the claim that the terrorist was at the same time a WCK worker [était] under review.

According to the spokesperson for Civil Defense in Gaza, Mahmoud Bassal, at least five martyrs were transferred, including three WCK employeesafter an Israeli airstrike on a car traveling on the main Salaheddine road, in the northeast of Khan Yunis.

He added that the three humanitarians were hit while driving […] a jeep belonging to WCK in Khan Younes, despite the fact that the vehicle was marked with a logo of theONGclearly visible.

On this point, the army affirmed that the car it targeted was an unmarked civilian vehicle and that his movement was not coordinated for the transport of aid.

On April 1, seven humanitarian workers from the organization founded by famous chef José Andrés died in a series of three Israeli strikes on their convoy in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has admitted a series of errors at various levels.

On April 28, theONG had announced to resume its operations in the Gaza Strip. Friday, she said on a social network that she was working with a bakery in southern Gaza to provide 23,000 loaves of bread per day in a territory ravaged by more than a year of war and threatened with famine, according to theHIM.