The fragile ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel remains unable to prevent casualties in Lebanon, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health in Beirut. According to the ministry, four people were injured after two attacks in Tel Aviv this Saturday (30).
The first, in the village of Majdal Zoun, in the south of the country, hit a car and injured three people, including a seven-year-old child, Lebanese authorities say. The second later left another injured in Al Bisariya, near the city of Sidon, according to the ministry.
The Jewish state said it attacked a Hezbollah facility in Sidon that housed the armed group’s rocket launchers and added that it hit a vehicle in southern Lebanon loaded with military equipment.
The diplomatic agreement that, since Wednesday (27), attempts to stop more than a year of fighting on the border between Israel and Lebanon determines that Tel Aviv forces maintain their positions in the neighboring country for up to 60 days – a period in which the Army and Beirut security forces must regain control of the nation’s south, currently dominated by Hezbollah.
The militia, in turn, must retreat around 30 kilometers from the border and dismantle its military infrastructure in the region. The condition is an attempt to guarantee security in northern Israel, from where around 60,000 people were displaced due to the clashes and to which they have not yet returned, even with the announcement of the truce.
Mutual accusations of violating the agreement took just a day to emerge. According to Tel Aviv, the truce was violated when fighters returned to the south. For the militia, Israel is attacking the millions of displaced people returning to their homes.
Following the announcement of the truce, US President Joe Biden urged Israel and Hamas to take the opportunity to sign a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, devastated after more than a year of Israeli bombing. The declaration, however, appears to have had no effect.
From Friday night (29) until this Saturday, at a time when Hamas leaders were expected in Cairo for ceasefire talks with Egyptian authorities, 32 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the region, according to local medical authorities.
According to doctors, nine people died after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Residents and a Hamas source told the Reuters news agency that the offensive hit a vehicle near a crowd receiving flour. The car was used by security officials tasked with overseeing the delivery of aid into the territory, according to the sources.
Earlier, also on Saturday, Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, said that three employees of World Central Kitchen, an American non-governmental humanitarian agency, were killed when a civilian vehicle was hit in the city.
It would be the second attack against this organization since the start of the war. In April, Israel killed seven people who worked at the organization after bombing a car marked with the NGO’s logo. The case was widely criticized by the international community.
This time, Tel Aviv said it had killed a Palestinian accused of involvement in the Hamas attack that triggered the current conflict, on October 7 last year, and said it was investigating suspicions that the individual was an employee of the NGO. World Central Kitchen has not yet commented on the incident.
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 44,000 people and displaced almost the entire population of the region at least once, officials in the Palestinian territory say. According to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 337 humanitarian workers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war.
