Israel bombs Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and its border with Syria
The Israeli army announced this morning that it has bombed a series of positions of the Shiite organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, including its border with Syria, where it says it has attacked arms trafficking routes.
“In the last few hours, the army carried out attacks based on intelligence against several targets in Lebanon,” indicates a military statement, according to which its targets were a rocket launching position, a military base and arms trafficking routes for Hezbollah on the border with Syria.
Israel, which had already been accused by Lebanon at the beginning of December of violating the ceasefire on more than 54 occasions, claimed to have presented to the truce supervision mechanism the danger posed by the targets attacked, but that the organization did not address the concerns. threats. The Mechanism for the Implementation and Monitoring of the Ceasefire in Lebanon, chaired by the United States, is also composed of the Lebanese Armed Forces, the Israel Defense Forces, the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon ( UNIFIL) and France.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (ANN) reported last night several airstrikes in the national territory, concentrated around the villages of Houmine al Faouqa and Deir al Zahrani, in southern Lebanon. Both are located north of the Litani River, which marks the limit (from the border between Israel and Lebanon) of the area that must be demilitarized after the ceasefire agreement, and which had already been established as
disarmament zone by resolution 1701 of the UN Security Council after the 2006 war. Along with these villages, the ANN reported an attack in the vicinity of Janta, in the center of the country and close to the border with Syria. So far there are no known fatalities from the attacks.
The fragile ceasefire agreement was signed on November 27, and stipulates the withdrawal of Hezbollah from the strip between the Litani River and the common border, as well as a reinforcement of the presence of the Lebanese army in the area. One of the main objectives of this deployment is to guarantee that no non-state entity possesses weapons in the border region, mainly Hezbollah, as stipulated in the UN Security Council resolution that ended the previous war in 2006. For the On the Israeli side, the pact establishes its withdrawal from the invaded Lebanese areas, although both this and the rest of the points of the agreement are very far from being completed two weeks before the end of the 60-day period stipulated for it. (Efe)
