The Israeli Army said this Monday afternoon (2) that it is attacking “terrorist” targets in Lebanon amid mutual accusations of violations of the ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
The announcement of the Israeli bombings came minutes after Hezbollah launched its first attack against Israel since the beginning of the truce.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack was “a serious violation of the ceasefire” and that his country would “respond to it with force.”
Hezbollah said in a statement that it targeted Israeli military positions “in light of the repeated violations initiated by the Israeli enemy of the ceasefire agreement.”
The armed group accused Israel of breaking the ceasefire by “shooting civilians and carrying out airstrikes in different parts of Lebanon, resulting in the martyrdom of citizens and injuries to others, in addition to the continued violation of Lebanese airspace by hostile Israeli aircraft arriving in Lebanon. capital, Beirut.”
Israel has carried out a series of bombings in Lebanon since Thursday (28), the day after the suspension of fighting began. At least one person was killed in an attack in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Understand conflicts in the Middle East
At the end of November, a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was approved. This comes after months of bombings by the Israeli Army in Lebanon.
The offensive caused destruction and forced more than a million people to leave their homes to escape the war. Furthermore, it left dozens of people dead in Lebanese territory.
Like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are radical groups financed by Iran, and therefore enemies of Israel.
The expectation is that the agreement will serve as the basis for a more lasting cessation of hostilities.
At the same time, the war continues in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military is fighting Hamas and searching for hostages who were kidnapped more than a year ago during the radical group’s attack on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. At the time, more than 1,200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped.
Since then, more than 43,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel’s offensive, which also destroyed virtually every building in the Palestinian territory.
On a third front of conflict, Israel and Iran exchanged attacks, which despite raising tension, did not evolve into an all-out war.
In addition, the Israeli Army has been carrying out bombings on Iranian-allied militia targets in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
This content was originally published in Israel Army announces attacks in Lebanon amid ceasefire violations on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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