At least one woman was killed and many more were injured when Israeli soldiers in the south Lebanon They opened fire today against people trying to return to the town of Hula near the border, despite the ceasefire, according to the state -owned Lebanese News Agency, while the Israeli army announced that it was holding new air raids on Lebanon today. , where rockets and weapons were found.

These events come in a more general climate of tensions in Lebanon, as the February 18th deadline expires in two days to withdraw Israeli troops from South Lebanon, as the agreement sets out. Truce of Israel/Hezbollah.

In today’s speech today Naim Cassemleader of the armed Shiite movement said it is up to the Lebanese government to put pressure on Israel to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon to Tuesday, February 18, saying that Israel has no “pretext” Point in southern Lebanon.

Kassem said that any Israeli military presence on Lebanese territory after February 18th would be treated as a occupation force. “Everyone knows how a occupation is treated,” he said, without explicitly threatening that Hezbollah will resume Israel’s attacks.

This afternoon, in a statement, the Israeli army said that “a while ago, (the army), he had accurately carried out information on military locations in Lebanese territory where rocket launchers and weapons were found, where Hezbollah had been identified.” Did not clarify the location of the wounds.

The Lebanese State News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes launched three raids in the Beka Valley in eastern Lebanon. “Enemy fighter aircraft carried out two blows on the outskirts of the village Halbata and a third blow to the village ‘, located in the northern part of Scorpion.

The Israeli army has launched similar blows in recent days.

The hostilities at the Israeli-Lebanese border began shortly after the outbreak of the war in October 2023 between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip with Hezbollah reporting that her attacks on Israel were in support of the Palestinians in the strip.

The escalation of hostilities last September brought two months of Israeli war on Lebanon, with the war ending on November 27 with a truce agreement between the warring parties.

Based on the agreement, the Israeli army should have already completed its departure from southern Lebanon, where only the Lebanese army and the UN blue -collar will be allowed to be found. The USA However, a country involved in the Truce Monitoring Committee said the departure was extended until February 18th.

However, sources at Reuters last week stressed that the Israeli army has requested to keep troops in five positions in southern Lebanon and beyond that date. Israeli media reported on Wednesday that the United States approved a “long -term” presence of Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.

Today, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference after a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio In Jerusalem, he said that Israel would do “what he needs to do” in order to adhere to the ceasefire in Lebanon. “Hezbollah must be disarmed, and Israel would prefer the Lebanese army to take over, but no one should doubt that Israel will do what it has to do in order to comply with the ceasefire and to defend our safety,” he said, “he said,” he said, ” Netanyahu.

Inside this climate last week, Lebanese authorities banned the arrival of Iranian flights to Beirut International Airport until February 18th after Israel’s allegations that Tehran is using civilian aircraft to carry cash to Beirut to equip Hezbollah.

In a statement today by Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television network, Kassem also stressed that the Lebanese government’s decision to ban Iranian flights was taken “at the behest of Israel”.

Hezbollah supporters have been demonstrating in recent days against this ban, excluding roads leading to Lebanese International Airport.

As part of these demonstrations on Friday, its outgoing deputy commander Unifil He was injured when the motorway, carrying members of the peacekeeping forces to Beirut Airport, was “violently attacked” on a road blocked by Hezbollah supporters near Beirut.

The Lebanese authorities arrested more than 25 people as part of the investigation into the attack.

Hezbollah today condemned the attack on the United Nations power vehicle in Lebanon (Unifil), which the US Foreign Ministry said “according to reports, by a team of Hezbollah supporters”.

Last Saturday another demonstration by Hezbollah outside the airport was treated with tear gas by Lebanese forces.

Kassem also asked for a large turnout today to the funeral scheduled for Beachfront On February 23 of Hassan Nasrala, the leader of Hezbollah, killed in September by an Israeli air raid in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

For a long time dominant in the Lebanese political scene, Hezbollah came out of the war with Israel, as the leadership of the movement was greatly decimated. Also, the decline in Syrian President Bashar al -Assad’s regime, an ally of Hezbollah, has caused a blow to the organization’s supply line with weapons systems.