Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A violent wave of Israeli strikes targeted southern Lebanon, the heartland of Hezbollah, late on August 6, causing casualties.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said that the surroundings of the towns of Deir Siryan and Zawtar, as well as the Litani River, the heights of Jabal al-Rayhan, and the Iqlim al-Tuffah region were targeted.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) later announced in a statement that the strikes targeted Hezbollah, including weapons depots, rocket launchers, and sites used to store construction vehicles that were used by the group to restore its infrastructure.
“The Hezbollah terror organization continues its attempts to restore terror infrastructure throughout Lebanon, while endangering Lebanese civilians and using them as human shields,” the IDF says, adding that the presence of weapons and Hezbollah’s activity in the area “constitutes a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
According to the Lebanese health ministry, the Israeli strikes killed a Syrian national and wounded at least two other people.
The United States brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon last November, but the IDF refused to halt strikes on Hezbollah or to withdraw from five strategic posts in southern Lebanon.
The latest wave of strikes came just hours after Hezbollah slammed a plan presented by the Lebanese government meant to disarm it by the end of the year, calling it a “major mistake” that harms the country’s sovereignty.
Responding to the government’s plan, which was announced a day earlier, the group said in a statement that the move was a result of United States “diktats” and that it will treat the decision “as if it does not exist.”
The plan discussed by the government is based on a proposal made by U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack. The proposal includes a roadmap to fully disarm Hezbollah, in exchange for Israel halting its strikes on Lebanon and withdrawing its troops from the five posts.
Despite Hezbollah’s rejection, the government is expected to discuss the plan again on August 7, with Lebanese media reporting that modifications could be made.
The deadly Israeli strikes were clearly meant as a warning to Hezbollah. Still, the group, which has been showing great restraint, will not likely back down.
Earlier in the week, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem warned that should Israel engage in a “large-scale aggression” against Lebanon, Hezbollah, Lebanon’s army and Lebanon’s people would defend themselves with missiles falling again on Israel.
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“warns”?
you look at the sohr and ask yourself if the hts would be killed and sell the lebanese people.
it would be interesting to see how the israeli foot soldiers would do against hezbollah at this time.
they don’t have the balls, they can’t even crush hamas in gaza, the idf child killers are being bled every day.
they should be okay, congress has just passed a $500 million emergency aid package for super absorbent diapers.
what will happen to hezbollah it will israel really exiled all syrian terrorists to lebanon?
the only terrorists in the region are the joo kiddie killers.
i do not believe that hezbollah are ready to abandon weapons. if not because of idf because of hts. because it can happen that hts will be selling lebanese. trade with human organs and sexual slavery is a serious problem.
oh hello mia
the lion of judah is hunting…heheheh
the jooz are biting off more than they can chew, but it will take some time before this becomes apparent.
seems like the region needs an international peace conference to discuss general disarmament. i suspect that’s a non starter for the israelis who have clearly been given the red light to disrupt the brics agenda in the middle east hence the total chaos. the danger is that the turmoil seeps into western europe through the baltic.
hezbollah was created in retaliation of one of the many times ‘israel’ invaded lebanon june 6 followed by the many massacres like the facilitation of the sabra and chatila unharmed refugee camps massacre by complicit phalanges september 16 and 18, 1982 and the siege of beirut. us marines who participated in the illegal aggression against lebanon were repelled by hezbollah then the usa classified the organization as ‘terrorist’.
of course the submissive (to usil) takfiri hts are usil+ proxy groups (the added ‘+’ is for their coalition including other vassals of us) they threaten lebanon not only the south but also north lebanon and we have the classical protection racket with their masters pushing collaborators in north lebanon for being more submissive and giving up + to usil.