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Israel strike kills one in Lebanon: Ministry
An Israeli strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said, in the latest attack despite a November ceasefire.
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Israel strike kills one in Lebanon: Ministry
AFP Beirut, Lebanon
Published: 08 Aug 2025, 19: 24
Lebanese army soldiers and onlookers stand near the wreckage of a vehicle that was reportedly targeted by an Israeli strike, on the highway near the village of Ansarieyh, south of the coastal city of Sidon on 8 August 2025. AFP
An Israeli strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said, in the latest attack despite a November ceasefire.
It comes a day after Israeli strikes killed seven people in the eastern Bekaa Valley, two of them members of leftist militant group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The man killed in Friday's strike in Nabatiyeh district, Mohammad Shahadeh, ran a local news website and colleagues took to social media to offer their condolences to his family.
Social media users circulated an obituary released by Hezbollah, which described him as a "martyr on the road to Jerusalem", the term the group uses for members killed in fighting with Israel.
The PFLP meanwhile mourned "commander and Central Committee member, Mohammad Khalil Wishah" and "field commander Mufid Hassan Hussein, who were martyred yesterday (Thursday) in a treacherous Zionist assassination crime on the road between Syria and Lebanon".
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying Wishah had served in the PFLP's "military-security department in Syria" since his predecessor was assassinated in an Israeli air strike in Beirut in September.
The military alleged that Wishah "recently operated to advance military operations against Israeli targets".
Israel has repeatedly struck Lebanon despite last year's truce and has threatened to continue its attacks until Hezbollah has been disarmed.
This week, the Lebanese government agreed an end of year target for the disarmament of the militant group and tasked the army with drawing up a plan by the end of August.
AFP Beirut, Lebanon
Published: 08 Aug 2025, 19: 24
Lebanese army soldiers and onlookers stand near the wreckage of a vehicle that was reportedly targeted by an Israeli strike, on the highway near the village of Ansarieyh, south of the coastal city of Sidon on 8 August 2025. AFP
An Israeli strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said, in the latest attack despite a November ceasefire.
It comes a day after Israeli strikes killed seven people in the eastern Bekaa Valley, two of them members of leftist militant group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The man killed in Friday's strike in Nabatiyeh district, Mohammad Shahadeh, ran a local news website and colleagues took to social media to offer their condolences to his family.
Social media users circulated an obituary released by Hezbollah, which described him as a "martyr on the road to Jerusalem", the term the group uses for members killed in fighting with Israel.
The PFLP meanwhile mourned "commander and Central Committee member, Mohammad Khalil Wishah" and "field commander Mufid Hassan Hussein, who were martyred yesterday (Thursday) in a treacherous Zionist assassination crime on the road between Syria and Lebanon".
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying Wishah had served in the PFLP's "military-security department in Syria" since his predecessor was assassinated in an Israeli air strike in Beirut in September.
The military alleged that Wishah "recently operated to advance military operations against Israeli targets".
Israel has repeatedly struck Lebanon despite last year's truce and has threatened to continue its attacks until Hezbollah has been disarmed.
This week, the Lebanese government agreed an end of year target for the disarmament of the militant group and tasked the army with drawing up a plan by the end of August.
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Blast at Hezbollah site kills 6 Lebanese troops
Lebanon’s army said a blast at a weapons depot near the Israeli border on Saturday killed six soldiers as a military source said troops were removing munitions from a Hezbollah facility.
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Blast at Hezbollah site kills 6 Lebanese troops
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 09 August, 2025, 23:02
Lebanon’s army said a blast at a weapons depot near the Israeli border on Saturday killed six soldiers as a military source said troops were removing munitions from a Hezbollah facility.
Under a truce that ended a recent war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, the army has been deploying in south Lebanon and dismantling the militant group’s infrastructure there.
The deaths come as Lebanon tackles the thorny issue of disarming Hezbollah, with the cabinet this week tasking the army with developing a plan to do so by year end and the Iran-backed group pushing back.
Iran said Saturday it opposed the Lebanese government’s decision.
An army statement gave a preliminary toll of six soldiers killed and others wounded ‘while an army unit was inspecting a weapons depot and dismantling its contents in Wadi Zibqin’, in the Tyre district near the Israeli border.
Investigations were underway to determine the cause of the blast, it added.
A military source, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to brief the media, told AFP the blast took place ‘inside a Hezbollah military facility’.
Troops were ‘removing munitions and unexploded ordnance left over from the recent war’ between Israel and Hezbollah when the blast occurred, the source added.
President Joseph Aoun said he was informed by army commander Rodolphe Haykal of the ‘painful incident’ that led to troop casualties.
Prime minister Nawaf Salam paid tribute on X to the troops who were killed ‘while performing their national duty’, calling the army the protector of Lebanon’s ‘unity and its legitimate institutions’.
The blast came days after Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, said that troops had ‘discovered a vast network of fortified tunnels’ in the same area.
Under the November ceasefire which sought to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, weapons in Lebanon should be restricted to state institutions.
The government has tasked the army with presenting a plan for restricting weapons to government forces by the end of August.
Lebanon’s cabinet met twice this week on the issue, while Hezbollah has rejected the government’s decision to take away its weapons.
A senior adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Saturday that Iran ‘is certainly opposed to the disarmament of Hezbollah... Iran has always supported the people and the resistance of Lebanon and continues to do so.’
Lebanon’s cabinet on Thursday discussed a US proposal that includes a timetable for Hezbollah’s disarmament, with Washington pressing Beirut to take action.
The government endorsed the introduction of the US text without discussing specific timelines, and called for the deployment of Lebanese troops in border areas.
It also called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from five south Lebanon areas they have occupied since the recent war.
In April, Lebanon’s military said three troops were killed in a munitions blast in the south, just days after a soldier was killed and three others wounded in another explosion as authorities said they had been dismantling mines in a tunnel.
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 09 August, 2025, 23:02
Lebanon’s army said a blast at a weapons depot near the Israeli border on Saturday killed six soldiers as a military source said troops were removing munitions from a Hezbollah facility.
Under a truce that ended a recent war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, the army has been deploying in south Lebanon and dismantling the militant group’s infrastructure there.
The deaths come as Lebanon tackles the thorny issue of disarming Hezbollah, with the cabinet this week tasking the army with developing a plan to do so by year end and the Iran-backed group pushing back.
Iran said Saturday it opposed the Lebanese government’s decision.
An army statement gave a preliminary toll of six soldiers killed and others wounded ‘while an army unit was inspecting a weapons depot and dismantling its contents in Wadi Zibqin’, in the Tyre district near the Israeli border.
Investigations were underway to determine the cause of the blast, it added.
A military source, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to brief the media, told AFP the blast took place ‘inside a Hezbollah military facility’.
Troops were ‘removing munitions and unexploded ordnance left over from the recent war’ between Israel and Hezbollah when the blast occurred, the source added.
President Joseph Aoun said he was informed by army commander Rodolphe Haykal of the ‘painful incident’ that led to troop casualties.
Prime minister Nawaf Salam paid tribute on X to the troops who were killed ‘while performing their national duty’, calling the army the protector of Lebanon’s ‘unity and its legitimate institutions’.
The blast came days after Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, said that troops had ‘discovered a vast network of fortified tunnels’ in the same area.
Under the November ceasefire which sought to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, weapons in Lebanon should be restricted to state institutions.
The government has tasked the army with presenting a plan for restricting weapons to government forces by the end of August.
Lebanon’s cabinet met twice this week on the issue, while Hezbollah has rejected the government’s decision to take away its weapons.
A senior adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Saturday that Iran ‘is certainly opposed to the disarmament of Hezbollah... Iran has always supported the people and the resistance of Lebanon and continues to do so.’
Lebanon’s cabinet on Thursday discussed a US proposal that includes a timetable for Hezbollah’s disarmament, with Washington pressing Beirut to take action.
The government endorsed the introduction of the US text without discussing specific timelines, and called for the deployment of Lebanese troops in border areas.
It also called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from five south Lebanon areas they have occupied since the recent war.
In April, Lebanon’s military said three troops were killed in a munitions blast in the south, just days after a soldier was killed and three others wounded in another explosion as authorities said they had been dismantling mines in a tunnel.
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Hezbollah chief thanks Iran for support to face Israel
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has thanked a senior Iranian official for his country’s on-going support in confronting Israel, the Lebanese militant group said on Thursday...
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Hezbollah chief thanks Iran for support to face Israel
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 14 August, 2025, 22:13
Naim Qassem | BSS file photo
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has thanked a senior Iranian official for his country’s on-going support in confronting Israel, the Lebanese militant group said on Thursday.
For decades, Tehran has been the main backer of the Shia Muslim group, which emerged badly weakened from last year’s war with Israel that saw its arsenal pummelled and senior commanders killed.
Qassem met with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council chief Ali Larijani, who arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, and thanked Iran ‘for the on-going support to Lebanon and its resistance against the Israeli enemy’, the group said in a statement.
He also thanked Iran for its support for Lebanon’s ‘unity, sovereignty and independence’, and emphasised ‘the brotherly relations between the Lebanese and Iranian people’.
Larijani’s visit came after the Lebanese government tasked the army with drawing up a plan to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year.
Recent statements from Iranian officials in support of Hezbollah keeping its weapons have angered Lebanese officials.
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun told Larijani on Wednesday that ‘we reject any interference in our internal affairs,’ adding that ‘it is forbidden for anyone... to bear arms and to use foreign backing as leverage’.
Prime minister Nawaf Salam was equally firm, saying that ’Lebanon will not accept, in any form, any interference in its internal affairs, and expects from the Iranian side a clear and explicit commitment to respect these principles.’
Larijani said that ‘any decision that the Lebanese government makes in consultation with the resistance is respected by us’.
‘The one who interferes in Lebanese affairs is the one who plans for you, gives you a timetable from thousands of kilometres away. We did not give you any plan,’ he said.
He was alluding to Washington, which put heavy pressure on Beirut to disarm Hezbollah and even presented a detailed proposal, including a timeline, for the process.
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 14 August, 2025, 22:13
Naim Qassem | BSS file photo
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has thanked a senior Iranian official for his country’s on-going support in confronting Israel, the Lebanese militant group said on Thursday.
For decades, Tehran has been the main backer of the Shia Muslim group, which emerged badly weakened from last year’s war with Israel that saw its arsenal pummelled and senior commanders killed.
Qassem met with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council chief Ali Larijani, who arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, and thanked Iran ‘for the on-going support to Lebanon and its resistance against the Israeli enemy’, the group said in a statement.
He also thanked Iran for its support for Lebanon’s ‘unity, sovereignty and independence’, and emphasised ‘the brotherly relations between the Lebanese and Iranian people’.
Larijani’s visit came after the Lebanese government tasked the army with drawing up a plan to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year.
Recent statements from Iranian officials in support of Hezbollah keeping its weapons have angered Lebanese officials.
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun told Larijani on Wednesday that ‘we reject any interference in our internal affairs,’ adding that ‘it is forbidden for anyone... to bear arms and to use foreign backing as leverage’.
Prime minister Nawaf Salam was equally firm, saying that ’Lebanon will not accept, in any form, any interference in its internal affairs, and expects from the Iranian side a clear and explicit commitment to respect these principles.’
Larijani said that ‘any decision that the Lebanese government makes in consultation with the resistance is respected by us’.
‘The one who interferes in Lebanese affairs is the one who plans for you, gives you a timetable from thousands of kilometres away. We did not give you any plan,’ he said.
He was alluding to Washington, which put heavy pressure on Beirut to disarm Hezbollah and even presented a detailed proposal, including a timeline, for the process.
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Hezbollah mourns top commander killed in Israeli strike
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 24 November, 2025, 22:18
Hezbollah held the funeral Monday for its top military chief and other members of the militant group a day after Israel killed them in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since a November 2024 ceasefire sought to end more than a year of hostilities between the two sides.
His assassination comes as Israel has escalated its attacks on Lebanon, with the United States increasing pressure on the Beirut government to disarm the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Israel’s military said Sunday it had ‘eliminated the terrorist Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of general staff’.
The group announced the deaths of Tabatabai and four other members in the attack.
In Beirut’s southern suburbs, a densely populated area where Hezbollah holds sway, hundreds of supporters joined Monday’s funeral procession for Tabatabai and two of his companions.
Hezbollah members in fatigues carried the coffins, draped in the group’s yellow flags, to the sound of religious chants, an AFP correspondent said.
The crowd yelled slogans against Israel and America, while supporters carried portraits of the group’s leaders and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Hezbollah said Tabatabai assumed the role of military leader after the most recent war with Israel, which saw the group heavily weakened and senior commanders killed.
Israel has carried out near daily strikes on Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to prevent the group from rearming.
According to the agreement, Hezbollah was to withdraw north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometres from the border with Israel, and to have its military infrastructure there dismantled.
Under a government-approved plan, Lebanon’s army is to finish disarming Hezbollah in the area by year end, before tackling the rest of the country.
Hezbollah has rejected calls to disarm.
After Tabatabai’s killing, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would ‘not allow Hezbollah to rebuild its power’ and urged Lebanon’s government to ‘fulfil its commitment to disarm Hezbollah’.
A source close to the group said there were ‘two opinions within the group — those who wish to respond to the assassination and those who want to refrain from doing so — but the leadership tends to adopt the utmost forms of diplomacy at the present stage’.
Last December, Hezbollah lost a key supply route through Syria with the fall of longtime ruler and ally Bashar al-Assad.
Washington is also demanding that Beirut cut off the group’s funding from Iran, which slammed Sunday’s killing as ‘cowardly’.
Atlantic Council researcher Nicholas Blanford said that ‘Hezbollah’s options are very limited’.
‘Its support base is clamouring for revenge but if Hezbollah responds directly Israel will strike back very hard and no one in Lebanon will thank Hezbollah for that,’ he said.
Sunday’s strike was the biggest blow to Hezbollah since the ceasefire ‘because of (Tabatabai’s) seniority and the fact that it demonstrates the Israelis can still locate and target senior officials despite whatever protective measures Hezbollah is undertaking’ since the war, Blanford added.
Senior Hezbollah official Ali Damush told the funeral that Tabatabai’s killing aimed ‘to frighten and weaken Hezbollah into retreating surrendering, and submitting, but this goal will never be achieved’.
Israel was ‘worried about Hezbollah’s possible response — and should remain worried’, he said, urging Lebanese authorities to ‘confront the aggression by all means and reject the pressures that seek to push Lebanon to comply with American dictates and Israeli conditions’.
Lebanon’s army says it is implementing its plan to disarm Hezbollah, but the United States and Israel have accused Lebanon’s authorities of stalling.
Condemning the attack, prime minister Nawaf Salam said Sunday that ‘the only way to consolidate stability’ was through ‘extending the authority of the state over all its territory with its own forces, and enabling the Lebanese army to carry out its duties’.
A Lebanese military official said last week that US and Israeli demands to fully disarm Hezbollah by December 31 were ‘impossible’ considering personnel and equipment shortages, expressing concern at the risk of confrontations with local communities that support the group.
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 24 November, 2025, 22:18
Hezbollah held the funeral Monday for its top military chief and other members of the militant group a day after Israel killed them in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since a November 2024 ceasefire sought to end more than a year of hostilities between the two sides.
His assassination comes as Israel has escalated its attacks on Lebanon, with the United States increasing pressure on the Beirut government to disarm the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Israel’s military said Sunday it had ‘eliminated the terrorist Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of general staff’.
The group announced the deaths of Tabatabai and four other members in the attack.
In Beirut’s southern suburbs, a densely populated area where Hezbollah holds sway, hundreds of supporters joined Monday’s funeral procession for Tabatabai and two of his companions.
Hezbollah members in fatigues carried the coffins, draped in the group’s yellow flags, to the sound of religious chants, an AFP correspondent said.
The crowd yelled slogans against Israel and America, while supporters carried portraits of the group’s leaders and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Hezbollah said Tabatabai assumed the role of military leader after the most recent war with Israel, which saw the group heavily weakened and senior commanders killed.
Israel has carried out near daily strikes on Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to prevent the group from rearming.
According to the agreement, Hezbollah was to withdraw north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometres from the border with Israel, and to have its military infrastructure there dismantled.
Under a government-approved plan, Lebanon’s army is to finish disarming Hezbollah in the area by year end, before tackling the rest of the country.
Hezbollah has rejected calls to disarm.
After Tabatabai’s killing, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would ‘not allow Hezbollah to rebuild its power’ and urged Lebanon’s government to ‘fulfil its commitment to disarm Hezbollah’.
A source close to the group said there were ‘two opinions within the group — those who wish to respond to the assassination and those who want to refrain from doing so — but the leadership tends to adopt the utmost forms of diplomacy at the present stage’.
Last December, Hezbollah lost a key supply route through Syria with the fall of longtime ruler and ally Bashar al-Assad.
Washington is also demanding that Beirut cut off the group’s funding from Iran, which slammed Sunday’s killing as ‘cowardly’.
Atlantic Council researcher Nicholas Blanford said that ‘Hezbollah’s options are very limited’.
‘Its support base is clamouring for revenge but if Hezbollah responds directly Israel will strike back very hard and no one in Lebanon will thank Hezbollah for that,’ he said.
Sunday’s strike was the biggest blow to Hezbollah since the ceasefire ‘because of (Tabatabai’s) seniority and the fact that it demonstrates the Israelis can still locate and target senior officials despite whatever protective measures Hezbollah is undertaking’ since the war, Blanford added.
Senior Hezbollah official Ali Damush told the funeral that Tabatabai’s killing aimed ‘to frighten and weaken Hezbollah into retreating surrendering, and submitting, but this goal will never be achieved’.
Israel was ‘worried about Hezbollah’s possible response — and should remain worried’, he said, urging Lebanese authorities to ‘confront the aggression by all means and reject the pressures that seek to push Lebanon to comply with American dictates and Israeli conditions’.
Lebanon’s army says it is implementing its plan to disarm Hezbollah, but the United States and Israel have accused Lebanon’s authorities of stalling.
Condemning the attack, prime minister Nawaf Salam said Sunday that ‘the only way to consolidate stability’ was through ‘extending the authority of the state over all its territory with its own forces, and enabling the Lebanese army to carry out its duties’.
A Lebanese military official said last week that US and Israeli demands to fully disarm Hezbollah by December 31 were ‘impossible’ considering personnel and equipment shortages, expressing concern at the risk of confrontations with local communities that support the group.
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Israel launches new strikes in south Lebanon
The Israeli military said it had carried out another series of strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Thursday, exactly a year into the ceasefire with the militant group...
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Israel launches new strikes in south Lebanon
Agence France-Presse . Jerusalem 27 November, 2025, 22:54
The Israeli military said it had carried out another series of strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Thursday, exactly a year into the ceasefire with the militant group.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Israeli aircraft launched ‘a series of raids on Al-Mahmoudiya and Al-Jarmak in the Jezzine area’.
The Israeli military ‘struck and dismantled Hezbollah terror infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon’, it said in a statement.
It also said it had hit ‘several launch sites where Hezbollah weapons were stored’, ‘military posts’ used by the Iran-backed group and a storage facility containing weapons.
Israel’s military ‘will continue to operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel’, it said.
The November 27, 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of hostilities between the two sides.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to stop the group from rearming.
According to the ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah was to pull its forces north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometres north of the border with Israel, and have its military infrastructure there dismantled.
Under a government-approved plan, the Lebanese army is to dismantle Hezbollah military infrastructure south of the river by the end of the year, before tackling the rest of the country.
The United States is increasing its pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah.
The Lebanese military has said it is carrying out its plan to disarm the group, but the US and Israel have accused Lebanese authorities of stalling the process.
An Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday killed Haitham Ali Tabatabai — the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since the ceasefire entered into force.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz on Wednesday warned there would be ‘no calm’ in Lebanon if Israel’s security was not guaranteed.
One year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Israeli army still maintains five positions in south Lebanon, with fortifications and widened access routes, according to satellite images analysed by AFP.
Israel has kept troops in five positions that it deems strategic, saying it wants to ensure Hezbollah does not carry out any military activities in south Lebanon.
AFP was able to pinpoint these bases through satellite images from Planet Labs PBC.
Located on ridges across the Blue Line -- the de facto border -- these positions allow the Israeli army to control a series of Lebanese border villages, a move it considers key to protecting nearby Israeli communities.
The positions offer a direct view of the towns and villages of Kfar Kila, Aita al-Shaab, Maroun al-Ras, Aitaroun, Blida, Markaba and Hula -- among the most destroyed by Israeli strikes and ground operations.
Agence France-Presse . Jerusalem 27 November, 2025, 22:54
The Israeli military said it had carried out another series of strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Thursday, exactly a year into the ceasefire with the militant group.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Israeli aircraft launched ‘a series of raids on Al-Mahmoudiya and Al-Jarmak in the Jezzine area’.
The Israeli military ‘struck and dismantled Hezbollah terror infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon’, it said in a statement.
It also said it had hit ‘several launch sites where Hezbollah weapons were stored’, ‘military posts’ used by the Iran-backed group and a storage facility containing weapons.
Israel’s military ‘will continue to operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel’, it said.
The November 27, 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of hostilities between the two sides.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to stop the group from rearming.
According to the ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah was to pull its forces north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometres north of the border with Israel, and have its military infrastructure there dismantled.
Under a government-approved plan, the Lebanese army is to dismantle Hezbollah military infrastructure south of the river by the end of the year, before tackling the rest of the country.
The United States is increasing its pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah.
The Lebanese military has said it is carrying out its plan to disarm the group, but the US and Israel have accused Lebanese authorities of stalling the process.
An Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday killed Haitham Ali Tabatabai — the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since the ceasefire entered into force.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz on Wednesday warned there would be ‘no calm’ in Lebanon if Israel’s security was not guaranteed.
One year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Israeli army still maintains five positions in south Lebanon, with fortifications and widened access routes, according to satellite images analysed by AFP.
Israel has kept troops in five positions that it deems strategic, saying it wants to ensure Hezbollah does not carry out any military activities in south Lebanon.
AFP was able to pinpoint these bases through satellite images from Planet Labs PBC.
Located on ridges across the Blue Line -- the de facto border -- these positions allow the Israeli army to control a series of Lebanese border villages, a move it considers key to protecting nearby Israeli communities.
The positions offer a direct view of the towns and villages of Kfar Kila, Aita al-Shaab, Maroun al-Ras, Aitaroun, Blida, Markaba and Hula -- among the most destroyed by Israeli strikes and ground operations.
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