Little by little, the expansive wave of the rupture of the high fire in Gaza by Israel reaches more and more parts of the Middle East. The resumption on Tuesday of the bombings on the strip – including campaign stores or improvised shelters, and who in just four days have killed 634 people, mostly lower and women – has been generating more and more attacks against the country from different parts of the region. The last one, in the early hours of this Saturday, has been the launch of six rockets from Lebanon – the first in almost four months – an attack and to which the Israeli army has replicated this morning with dozens of bombings on Lebanon that have caused at least two dead.
First there were Yemen’s hutis, the armed group that joined Gaza’s truce while lasted and already in the last 48 hours the anti -aircraft sirens in a wide strip of Israel, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, by the launch of ballistic missiles that were intercepted. On Thursday, Hamas resumed the launch of projectiles, pointing to Tel Aviv, where alarms did not sound since October due to a threat originated in Gaza. And this Saturday has joined another front, with the first rockets from Lebanon since December 2, in the only attack that was an exception to the high fire reached in November between Israel and Hezbollah. It has been a little sophisticated attack, which no one has claimed, they have immediately condemned the Lebanese authorities and has not caused victims or material damage. The projectile launches are just wooden stakes.
The prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, has ordered, however, shortly after a “strong” response and the army has launched dozens of bombings in the south of the country, which have caused at least two dead and eight injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, has suggested that the attacks will also reach Beirut,
Israel initially pointed to Hezbollah, who denied having triggered the rockets, reaffirmed his “commitment to the high fire agreement” and showed his support for the State to “address the dangerous Zionist escalation against Lebanon.” An official Israeli source clarified later that they do not know the author of the launch.
Except for the case of the Hutis, who are the ones who have maintained the most, the attacks against Israel are being measured, in a new sample of the ability of the Netanyahu government to bomb Gaza or military, given, given, the closed support of the United States and the strategic weakness of Iran, which arms its loyal militias in the region.
The six rockets were directed against Metula, with transfer of troops and barely civilians. He was already under constant fire of Hezbollah that he maintained with Israel since the day following the attack of Hamas, on October 7, 2023.
According to the Israeli army, only three of the projectiles crossed their territory (and were intercepted), while the other three fell on Lebanese soil, which points to little advanced material. The Lebanese armed forces announced shortly after the discovery of three “very primitive” launches. The photos that have disseminated show just some wooden stakes on the floor to support the projectile. They were north of the Litani River, that is, outside and where the military deployment is focused to control Hezbollah. The soldiers They dismantled and “took the necessary measures to control the situation in the south” of the country.
Hours later, the Israeli aviation bombings arrived. A part, against skirts, in open spaces. Others left debris and damaged cars. The Ministry of Health has realized two fatalities and eight injured. The fighters discharged the explosives just after Netanyahu and their Minister of Defense ordered a “forceful” attack, in a message with an internal component, after weeks encouraging the Israelis who were evacuated a year and a half ago in northern Israel to return to their homes. Around half of the 60,000
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“We will not allow the reality of shooting from Lebanon to the communities of La Galilea [en el norte de Israel]. We promised them security and that is exactly what there will be, “said the Minister of Defense after the releases.” The law in Metula is the same law as in Beirut. The Lebanese government has the responsibility of any launch from its territory, ”he threatened.
The fear of a new war has been evident in the political reactions in Lebanon, which comes from forming a government that has ended two years of interim, in which and whose declaration of principles no longer mentions “the right of the people to resist the Israeli occupation by all means”, as they had been doing all from the TAIF agreement that ended 15 years of civil war (1975-1990). The United States and Saudi Arabia have had a role in the unpublished process in years.
The first to pronounce have been the head of government, Nawaf Salam, and the Minister of Defense, Michel Menassa. They have asked to avoid a climb on the border that “drag the country to a new war” and have stressed that “only the State has the power to decide on war and peace.” The president, Joseph Aoun, has sentenced request to investigate the projectiles. And the president of Parliament, Nabih Berry (the veteran leader of the other great Chií party, Amal, and representative of the position of Hezbollah in the dialogue of Alto El Fuego), has urged to “not give excuses” to Israel to launch a war in Lebanon, which still knows and the mass displacements that caused the previous one, between September and November 2024.
The high fire agreement that ended that Hezbollah cannot have weapons in the south of Lebanon (as already pointed out to the UN non -breached resolutions) and gives the Armed Forces the work of confiscating them and dismantling all the infrastructure of the militia. But Israel distrusts its ability and will to prevent the reorganization of Hezbollah, and, with specific bombings.
In addition – as in Syria, where he has invaded new territory after the fall of the Bashar El Asad regime – the Israeli army. Since last January, he maintains troops in five strategic points in South of Lebanon, violating the high the fire he had signed and forced a complete withdrawal of the terrestrial troops that invaded the country in October. They will remain “indefinitely,” said his Minister of Defense last week.
