[🇱🇧] Monitoring Israel and Lebanon War

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At the same time Iran's reconstituted Hamas with 40k new well trained fighters in Gaza.

How Iran pulls this off is really a mystery.......lol

 

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Israel kills 71 civilians in Lebanon since ceasefire: UN

Israeli forces have killed dozens of civilians in Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect late last year, including a number of women and children, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

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Israel kills 71 civilians in Lebanon since ceasefire: UN
Agence France-Presse . Geneva 15 April, 2025, 22:44

Israeli forces have killed dozens of civilians in Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect late last year, including a number of women and children, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The UN rights office reported that Israeli military operations had killed and injured civilians in Lebanon in the four months since the fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah on November 27.

‘According to our initial review, at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the ceasefire came into effect,’ rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.

‘Among the victims are 14 women and 9 children,’ he said, urging that ‘the violence must stop immediately’.

The delicate truce between Israel and Hezbollah came after more than a year of hostilities initiated by the Iran-backed militant group over the Gaza conflict, including two months of all-out war when Israel also sent in ground troops.

But months after the agreed end to fighting, Kheetan warned that people in Lebanon ‘people remain gripped by fear, and over 92,000 are still displaced from their homes’.

The rights office noted that Israeli strikes on Lebanese territory had hit civilian infrastructure since the ceasefire, including residential buildings, medical facilities, roads and at least one cafe.

The southern suburbs of Beirut were also hit in early April for the first time since the ceasefire took effect, in two different incidents, Kheetan said, adding that the area targeted was near two schools.

‘A strike on a residential building in the early morning of April 1 killed two civilians and caused significant damage to neighbouring buildings,’ he said.

Two days later, ‘Israeli airstrikes hit a newly established medical centre run by the Islamic Health Society in Naqoura in southern Lebanon, completely destroying the centre and damaging two ambulances’, he said.

He added that ‘multiple Israeli airstrikes on several towns in the south of Lebanon reportedly killed at least six people’ between April 4 and 8.

Israel had also faced attacks since the truce took effect, Kheetan said.

Since last November, at least five rockets, two mortars and a drone were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel, he said, citing figures from the Israeli army, adding that ‘tens of thousands of Israelis are still reportedly displaced from the north’.

Kheetan demanded that all parties to the conflict ‘respect international humanitarian law, including the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution’.

‘There must be prompt, independent and impartial investigations into all allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law, and those found responsible must be held to account.’​

 

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Israel kills 71 civilians in Lebanon since ceasefire: UN

Israeli forces have killed dozens of civilians in Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect late last year, including a number of women and children, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

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Israel kills 71 civilians in Lebanon since ceasefire: UN
Agence France-Presse . Geneva 15 April, 2025, 22:44

Israeli forces have killed dozens of civilians in Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect late last year, including a number of women and children, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The UN rights office reported that Israeli military operations had killed and injured civilians in Lebanon in the four months since the fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah on November 27.

‘According to our initial review, at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the ceasefire came into effect,’ rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.

‘Among the victims are 14 women and 9 children,’ he said, urging that ‘the violence must stop immediately’.

The delicate truce between Israel and Hezbollah came after more than a year of hostilities initiated by the Iran-backed militant group over the Gaza conflict, including two months of all-out war when Israel also sent in ground troops.

But months after the agreed end to fighting, Kheetan warned that people in Lebanon ‘people remain gripped by fear, and over 92,000 are still displaced from their homes’.

The rights office noted that Israeli strikes on Lebanese territory had hit civilian infrastructure since the ceasefire, including residential buildings, medical facilities, roads and at least one cafe.

The southern suburbs of Beirut were also hit in early April for the first time since the ceasefire took effect, in two different incidents, Kheetan said, adding that the area targeted was near two schools.

‘A strike on a residential building in the early morning of April 1 killed two civilians and caused significant damage to neighbouring buildings,’ he said.

Two days later, ‘Israeli airstrikes hit a newly established medical centre run by the Islamic Health Society in Naqoura in southern Lebanon, completely destroying the centre and damaging two ambulances’, he said.

He added that ‘multiple Israeli airstrikes on several towns in the south of Lebanon reportedly killed at least six people’ between April 4 and 8.

Israel had also faced attacks since the truce took effect, Kheetan said.

Since last November, at least five rockets, two mortars and a drone were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel, he said, citing figures from the Israeli army, adding that ‘tens of thousands of Israelis are still reportedly displaced from the north’.

Kheetan demanded that all parties to the conflict ‘respect international humanitarian law, including the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution’.

‘There must be prompt, independent and impartial investigations into all allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law, and those found responsible must be held to account.’​

Hezb alone has killed well over 6k IDF since Oct 7th and seriously injured double that number.

Israel is not happy with Hezb........

 

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2 killed in strikes on Lebanon

Lebanese president Joseph Aoun said Sunday that disarming the Iran-backed Hezbollah group was a ‘delicate’ matter whose implementation required the right circumstances, warning that forcing the issue could lead the country to ruin.

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2 killed in strikes on Lebanon
Agence France-Presse . Beirut 20 April, 2025, 23:18

Lebanese president Joseph Aoun said Sunday that disarming the Iran-backed Hezbollah group was a ‘delicate’ matter whose implementation required the right circumstances, warning that forcing the issue could lead the country to ruin.

His remarks came as Lebanon’s health ministry said two people were killed in Israeli strikes in the country’s south, the latest such raids despite a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group.

Restricting the bearing of arms to the state is ‘a sensitive, delicate issue that is fundamental to preserving civil peace’ and requires due ‘consideration and responsibility’, Aoun told reporters.

‘We will implement’ a state monopoly on bearing arms ‘but we have to wait for the circumstances’ to allow this, he said, adding that ‘nobody is speaking to me about timing or pressure’.

‘Any controversial domestic issue in Lebanon can only be approached through conciliatory, non-confrontational dialogue and communication. If not, we will lead Lebanon to ruin,’ he added.

Hezbollah, long a dominant force in Lebanon, was left weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel, sparked by the Gaza war, including an Israeli ground incursion and two months of heavy bombardment that decimated the group’s leadership.

On Friday, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said the group ‘will not let anyone disarm’ it, as Washington presses Beirut to compel the movement to hand over its weapons.

Qassem said his group was ready for dialogue on a ‘defence strategy’, ‘but not under the pressure of occupation’ by Israel.

Israel has continued to conduct regular strikes in Lebanon despite a November 27 ceasefire and still holds five positions in south Lebanon that it deems ‘strategic’.

On Sunday, Lebanon’s health ministry said an ‘Israeli enemy strike on a vehicle in Kaouthariyet al-Saiyad’, located inland between the southern cities of Sidon and Tyre, killed ‘one person’ and wounded two others.

It later said a separate ‘Israeli enemy’ strike ‘on a house in Hula’, near the border, killed one person.

The Israeli military did not immediately release any official statement on the strikes.

Qassem’s comments came hours after another senior Hezbollah official said the group would refuse to discuss handing over its weapons until Israel withdrew completely from south Lebanon.

US deputy special envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus this month said disarming Hezbollah should happen ‘as soon as possible’.

Under the truce, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters north of Lebanon’s Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south, while Israel was to withdraw all its forces.

Lebanon’s army has been deploying as Israeli troops have withdrawn and has also been dismantling any Hezbollah military infrastructure.

The army said on Sunday that its forces had confiscated rockets and launchers in south Lebanon’s Sidon-Zahrani area and detained a number of people over a plan to fire them towards Israeli-held territory, without saying if those detained were affiliated with any group.

On Wednesday, the army said it had arrested several people suspected of firing rockets at Israel from Lebanon last month, with a security official telling AFP that three members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas were among those held.​

 

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Israeli strike kills Lebanese leader in Beirut

A military leader from Hamas-aligned Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya died Tuesday in an Israeli strike south of Beirut, a security official said, as authorities reported another dead in a separate raid.

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Israeli strike kills Lebanese leader in Beirut
Agence France-Presse . Beirut 22 April, 2025, 22:36

Security forces and forensic experts inspect a car targeted by an Israeli air strike near Damour. | AFP photo

A military leader from Hamas-aligned Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya died Tuesday in an Israeli strike south of Beirut, a security official said, as authorities reported another dead in a separate raid.

Israel has continued to carry out regular strikes on Lebanon despite a November truce with militant group Hezbollah that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities between the foes including two months of all-out war.

Lebanon’s civil defence said ‘an Israeli drone targeted a car’ near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, and rescuers recovered a man’s body from the vehicle.

Jamaa Islamiya in a statement announced the death of Hussein Atoui, described as ‘an academic leader and university professor’.

It said an Israeli drone strike ‘targeted his car as he was travelling to his workplace in Beirut’.

A security official said Atoui was a leader of Jamaa Islamiya’s armed wing, the Al-Fajr Forces.

An AFP photographer saw the charred wreckage of a car at the scene. The Lebanese army had cordoned off the area and forensic teams were conducting an inspection.

Jamaa Islamiya, closely linked to both Palestinian militant group Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, claimed responsibility for multiple attacks against Israel before the November 27 ceasefire.

Also Tuesday, Lebanon’s health ministry said an ‘Israeli enemy’ strike in south Lebanon’s Tyre district killed one person.

Under the truce, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters north of Lebanon’s Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.

Israel was to withdraw all its forces from south Lebanon, but troops remain in five positions that it deems ‘strategic’. Israel on Sunday said it killed two senior members of Hezbollah in strikes on Lebanon.

After unclaimed rocket fire against Israel in late March, Lebanon’s army said last week it had arrested several Lebanese and Palestinian suspects, while a security official said they included three Hamas members.​

 

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HRW accuses Israel of attacks on civilians in Lebanon war

Human Rights Watch accused Israel on Wednesday of ‘indiscriminate’ attacks on civilians during its recent war with Hezbollah, saying two deadly strikes in east Lebanon should be investigated as war crimes...

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HRW accuses Israel of attacks on civilians in Lebanon war
Agence France-Presse . Beirut 23 April, 2025, 21:27

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Human Rights Watch accused Israel on Wednesday of ‘indiscriminate’ attacks on civilians during its recent war with Hezbollah, saying two deadly strikes in east Lebanon should be investigated as war crimes.

A November 27 ceasefire sought to end more than a year of hostilities between the two sides that began with Iran-backed Hezbollah’s cross-border fire at Israel in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas.

More than 4,000 people were killed in Lebanon, most of them during two months of all-out war that erupted in September, according to Lebanese authorities.

Among the dead were hundreds of Hezbollah fighters and a slew of senior commanders.

HRW said ‘two unlawful Israeli strikes’ on the town of Yunin in the eastern Bekaa Valley that killed more than 30 people ‘were apparent indiscriminate attacks on civilians’.

‘At least one of the attacks used an air-dropped bomb equipped with a United States-produced Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kit,’ it said.

‘The attacks should be investigated as war crimes.’

On September 25, a strike ‘killed a family of 23 people, all Syrians, including 13 children’, HRW said, while another on November 1 on a two-storey house ‘killed 10 people, including two children, one of them a year old’.

HRW said it ‘did not find any evidence of military activity or targets at either site’ and that the Israeli army did not issue evacuation warnings ahead of the strikes.

The rights watchdog said it had contacted the Israeli military about its findings but had ‘not received a response’.

AFP has also contacted the military for comment on the report.

HRW’s Ramzi Kaiss said in the statement that ‘more and more evidence is emerging that Israeli forces repeatedly failed to protect civilians or adequately distinguish civilians from military targets during its strikes across Lebanon’.

Washington’s supply of weapons to Israel ‘has made the US complicit in their unlawful use’, HRW added.

It urged the Lebanese government to give ‘the International Criminal Court jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes’ and provide ‘a path for justice for grieving families’.

Swathes of Lebanon’s south and east and parts of Beirut’s southern suburbs were heavily damaged by Israeli bombardment during the hostilities.

Last month, rights group Amnesty International said Israel’s attacks on ambulances, paramedics and health facilities in Lebanon during the conflict should also be investigated as war crimes.​