“It is worrying that Israeli army forces continue to destroy residential areas, agricultural land and road networks in southern Lebanon, in violation of Resolution 1701,” UNIFIL wrote on Thursday. in a press release.
In addition to violating Resolution 1701, Israel is also ignoring the truce, which came into force on November 27, after two months of open war between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah. Under the agreement, the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers must deploy in southern Lebanon and the Israeli army must withdraw within 60 days. But both camps accuse each other of repeated violations.
“Any action endangering the ceasefire must stop”
UNIFIL again called on Thursday for “the rapid withdrawal” of the Israeli army, as well as the “full implementation” of resolution 1701. This resolution, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and the Hezbollah establishes that only Lebanese troops and UNIFIL must carry weapons in the south of the country and demands that Israeli troops withdraw from Lebanese territory.
“Any action endangering the fragile ceasefire must stop,” said UNIFIL after having already urged the Israeli army on Monday to “urgently” accelerate its withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
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On Thursday, the Lebanese national information agency ANI also reported “vast search operations” by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon. “Following the sudden incursion of the occupying army towards the town of Qantara, the residents fled towards the town of Ghandouriya,” the agency said. On Wednesday, she reported an Israeli airstrike on the Baalbeck region in eastern Lebanon.
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