Israel continued its violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon on Monday by launching an airstrike in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil that killed at least one civilian and wounded four Lebanese soldiers.
“The Israeli enemy targeted a car near the Saf al-Hawa/Bint Jbeil military checkpoint, killing a citizen and lightly wounding four soldiers,” the Lebanese Army said in a statement, according to AFP.
A day earlier, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed three civilians. Since the ceasefire was supposed to go into effect on November 27, Israeli attacks have killed at least 24 people in Lebanon.
Lebanon has reported around 160 Israeli ceasefire violations since November 27. There’s only been one known incident of Hezbollah rocket fire that caused no casualties, which the group said was a “warning shot” in response to Israeli violations.
Israeli officials have claimed Hezbollah’s presence in southern Lebanon is a violation of the ceasefire, but under the deal, the group has 60 days to bring its fighters and heavy weapons north of the Litani River. During that time, Israel is also supposed to withdraw from southern Lebanon.
The US has given Israel assurances that it could take military action in southern Lebanon if it deems Hezbollah is violating the deal, giving Israel significant freedom of action. The assurances were given in a letter separate from the agreement signed between Israel and Lebanon.
”Alls we are saying, is give Peace a chance!…”
Well we chanted that in the Sixties and things have gotten progressively worse.
USA and Israel – "Rules for thee but not for me".
Israel is the party that should be warned about breaking the "ceasefire", not Hezbollah! The USA warns Israel's enemies of consequences of their actions while Israel just casually goes about mass murdering its neighbors! Is their any question that USA "leaders" are nothing more than Israeli prostitutes? They WILL be indicted for war crimes if the ICC has bigger balls than it has shown so far. Along with their masters in Tel Aviv!
Israel continues to violate everything because the can. they have America's support adn the rest of the world is scared of US nukes.
The borders of Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq were drawn by Great Britain and France after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Those borders were not based on demography, but, at least in part, on the defense of the Suez Canal and the oil patches in Mesopotamia. The French were stripped of oil but the British Government signed a "share the oil" agreement with France. It was all in the context of the restoration of their weakened colonial empires.
What happened next was the emergence of us as the number one colonial empire which neither Biden nor Trump want to give up.
Turkey cannot restore the Ottoman Empire and the people who now live in that Near-East might want a new kind of states.
Hey they not only have God on their side. They have uncle Sammy…
Looks like we got one of those ole' "one-sided ceasefires" again . . .