The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire may have been extended this weekend, but that doesn’t mean fire has in any way ceased, nor indeed that the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon isn’t moving ever deeper into the country.
In the first day since the extension was announced, Israeli troops killed at least 18 Lebanese and wounded 124 others. This included an attack on a medical center which killed multiple paramedics.
Israel issued yet more evacuations for villages in southern Lebanon today, and officials announced their intention to advance deeper into southern Lebanon, citing the threats posed to troops occupying the southern south of Lebanon if they didn’t occupy the slightly further north parts of southern Lebanon.
Devastation seen across Lebanon after latest Israeli strikes | Image from X
Overnight, four Israeli soldiers were reported wounded in a roadside bomb in southern Lebanon, one seriously so. The IDF said the soldiers were successfully evacuated to a hospital, and that they’re unclear if Hezbollah planted the bomb recently, or at some point before the various ceasefires.
This came after a separate incident on Saturday in which an IDF captain was killed by an explosive drone during ongoing clashes in southern Lebanon. He is the 20th Israeli soldier to be slain since the invasion of Lebanon began.
The UN issued a statement welcoming the extension of the ceasefire, and called for all sides to respect the ceasefire. This, naturally, didn’t happen and the adjoining calls for all sides to respect international law seem similarly quite optimistic given the history of these ceasefires.
