Lebanon and Gaza Similar images: thousands of displaced by wars are concentrated before Israeli troops when the deadline is fulfilled in which, in theory, they could return to their homes, but that the Government of Benjamín Netanyahu has postponed. The tensions have ended up staining blood in Lebanon, where the soldiers have killed 15 people, including a soldier, and wounded to more than 80 when opening fire, according to the Ministry of Health and the country’s army. In Gaza, there is also a dead man, while tens of thousands of people expect – with mattresses and belongings – their return to the north, that the army forced them to abandon at the beginning of an invasion that has ended lasting 15 months and now depends on a delicate cease-fire.
In Lebanon’s images you can see groups of civilians gathered at the entrance of their villages, some with hezbollah flags. Israeli troops have opened fire (usually in the air, as a warning), cut roads and put on bargain, to stop their return to the localities during the more than two months of war between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which ended Last November with an agreement with loose ends.
The inhabitants of the area try to return to their homes because this Sunday concluded the 60 -day period that the Israeli army had to retire and already advanced that it would breach. The Army published a map of the localities to which the population is prohibited from approaching and this Sunday has reported arrests and “warning shots to eliminate threats in several areas where suspects were identified that approached the troops” . The statement overlooks direct and dead shots.
Netanyahu announced Friday that their forces will continue in Lebanon beyond 60 days, during which they were going to progressively retreat, so that the Lebanese armed forces took the baton. The text of the agreement gives the tripartite mechanism of the Blue helmets of the United Nations (with the now added of the United States and France) the coordination of “the execution by the armies of Israel and Lebanon of the detailed and specific plan for the withdrawal by phases and the deployment in those areas, which should not exceed 60 days”.
Washington supports delay
Netanyahu, however, argues that “that article is based on the understanding that the withdrawal process may possibly continue beyond 60 days” and considers that the conditions are not given so that the Lebanese armed forces “implement total and effectively “The pact. Washington – the ally of Israel and financier of the Lebanese army – has supported the delay.
The impotent and inframed armed forces of Lebanon, now face the dilemma of seeing how troops that occupy national territory and should have crossed to the other side of the border open fire against the population. In a statement, they have assured that their units have entered the town of Dhaira and other borders “while the Israeli enemy continues his aggression against citizens, causing more martyrs and wounded, and refusing to respect the agreement of high fire and retire of the Lebanese territories ”.
Hassan Fadlallah, deputy of Hezbollah, has pointed out Al Manar, the television network of: “We hope that the State will play its role. […] We are in our land and it is the enemy who turned against the agreement and violated it, so the people are releasing their land with their own hands and blood. ” On Thursday, that I would not admit “any violation of the agreement and its guarantees, or any attempt to break them with excuses.” In reality, the Israeli army has continued to occasionally bomb the guarantors of the pact.
Waiting
Gaza is leaving less lethal, but more massive images. A mass of people has concentrated before the Netzarim corridor, the road created by the Israeli army during its invasion to cut the strip in half perpendicularly. With cars loading mattresses and belongings, on foot … tens of thousands of people, they wait for their moment. The troops have opened fire and there is a dead and two injured, according to health authorities.
The reason, as in Lebanon, is the breach of a term. This Saturday, who had taken hostages in his attack on October 7, 2023 and Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners with long sentences or perpetuity, dozens of which with the condition of ending up in Gaza or other countries.
After this exchange (the second of the Alto El Fuego), Israel was scheduled to allow the return of hundreds of thousands of displaced people, but argued that Hamas should have given a civilian, Arbel Yehud, before the four military . The Islamist movement has not provided Israel, through the mediators, the list of who are alive and who not the twenty hostage that must be released during this first phase of the high fire, week after week for a month and a half.
Hamas has accused Israel on Sunday of clinging to an excuse, by underlining that Arbel is alive, which will deliver it next week and has given “all the necessary guarantees for his release.” He did not do it on Saturday, because he is in the hands of another militia and required a transfer, he added in a statement. But Netanyahu insists that he still does not receive proof of any life and announced on Saturday the reprisal: the blockade at the return of the displaced people of North, anxious to return to their homes, according to data from the UN.
