In addition, 17 people were injured – Israeli troops remain in the area despite the expiration of the deadline for their retirement
The Israeli forces killed one people and injured others 17 trying to return to their homes in southern Lebanon, where Israeli troops remain despite the deadline for their departure, the Lebanese health ministry said.
Israel has said that it intends to maintain troops in the south beyond today’s expiration of the deadline, provided for by the ceasefire agreement achieved by US mediation and had stopped the war with Hezbollah last year, and ordered the residents not to return. until younger.
The agreement predicted that the Israeli forces would leave southern Lebanon as weapons and fighters of Iran Hezbollah supported would be removed from the area, and the Lebanese army would grow there, within a period of 60 days.
Israel, however, has said that the Lebanese state has not fully imposed the terms of the agreement, while the US -backed US army accused Israel yesterday of delaying its departure.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health has announced that a man was killed and nine others were injured in the village of Hula as a result of Israeli attacks as he said against citizens while trying to enter their still occupied cities.
Another eight people were injured in Kfar Kila, he said.
The Israeli army did not comment at the moment.
Israel has not said how much its forces will remain in the south, where the Israeli army says it seizes weapons and dismantling Hezbollah’s infrastructure.
The Hezbollah-Israel War waged alongside the Gaza war and culminated in a large Israeli attack on Hezbollah, which uprooted more than a million people in Lebanon and brought about very severe blows to the organization.
Israel’s army remains in southern Lebanon, defying the deadline for his withdrawal
The Israeli Armed Forces remain developed in areas of southern Lebanese, although the sixty -day deadline for their disposal to withdraw from the territory of the neighboring country is expiring in the context of the sixty days of the ceasefire with the Hezbol Movement. is considered to be attached to Iran.
The Lebanese army denounced Israel’s “excuses” on Saturday and stressed that he was ready to “continue his development as soon as the Israeli enemy retired”.
Under the terms of the agreement that ended November 27th the war that was raging for two months between the Hezbolla and Israel movement, only the Lebanese army and the UN blue -collars are now allowed to have forces developed in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli Forces were supposed to complete their departure today, January 26th.
The units of the latter have been removed from the coastal areas of southern Lebanon, but continue to hold areas east.
On the other hand, Hezbolla, considered to be weakened after the war, is obliged to transport its forces north of the river Litani, some 30 kilometers from the border, and to destroy any military infrastructure left in the south.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, said Friday that the withdrawal of Israeli troops would continue beyond the deadline set.
“The ceasefire agreement was not fully complied with by Lebanon, the stages of departure process will continue in agreement with the US,” he noted. Washington is among members who oversee the implementation of the agreement.
Accusing the Lebanese army and Hezbolla of failing to adhere to the terms of the agreement, he added that Israel would not allow “at risk of its communities and its citizens” in the northern part of the country.
The hostilities between Israel and Hezbolla for 60,000 people in Israel and another 900,000 in Lebanon to leave their homes on both sides of the border.
Hezbolla’s MP Ali Fayyad ruled yesterday that “the pretexts of Israel” are intended to “continue burnt policy” and to make “the return of residents (communities of the south) impossible”.
For his part, the new Lebanese president Joseph Aun, referred during his conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to “the need for Israel to comply with the terms of the agreement in order to maintain stability in the south,” a statement said yesterday, ” its presidency services.
He also insisted on the need for Israel to “end repeated violations, especially the destruction of border villages (…) that would prevent the return of their residents.”
Despite the truce, Israeli Armed Forces often unleash bombings, saying they are acting against Hezbolla, and the Lebanese official Ani news agency reports that they are still dynaming villages that still hold in the south.
The truce, which is characterized as fragile, was marked by repeated accusations of violations of the terms of the agreement.
Emphasizing that she took action to support Hamas, her ally, Hezbolla opened a front with Israel from the day after the unprecedented attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement in the southern part of the Israeli territory on October 7th, 2023, on October 2023. , where a ceasefire agreement is also in force since January 19th.
This front, however, was transformed into an open war in September, with Israel unleashing sweeping bombings across the country, especially in the southern suburbs of Beirut, and managing repeatedly harshly in the powerful Lebanese movement, especially killing the bomber, Hassan Nasrala.
Hezbolla said on Thursday that “any violation of the 60 -day deadline will be considered a blatant violation of the fire” ceasefire.
It would oblige the Lebanese state to use “all the necessary means (…) to regain its territory and distract it from the nails of the Occupation,” the movement added, avoiding threatening to resume its attacks.
Source :Skai
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