Israel accuses Hezbollah of projectile fire
On X, the Israeli army says it detected two Hezbollah projectiles fired at “Mount Dov” – what Israel calls the Lebanese Shebaa Farms. The area is illegally occupied by Israel. It says the projectiles fell in open areas, causing no casualties.
According to UN resolution 1701 Israel has to give Shebaa Farms back. One of the reasons 1701 was never fully implemented. Will it be this time?
After days of Israeli strikes, Hezbollah hits back, each accusing the other of ceasefire violations
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-projectiles-ceasefire-intl-latam/index.html
For the first time since a ceasefire went into effect last week, Hezbollah has fired two projectiles toward Israeli-occupied territory, responding to repeated Israeli strikes since the agreement.
Israel has carried out daily strikes in Lebanon since Thursday, the day after a ceasefire went into effect. One person was killed in a strike in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Hezbollah had fired two projectiles, which landed in an open area on Monday, according to the Israeli military, which said no one was injured. The military did not specify the type of projectile fired.
Hours later, Israel’s military said it began striking “terror targets” in Lebanon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate in a statement, calling Hezbollah’s attack “a serious violation of the ceasefire.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said earlier on Monday that its own cross-border strikes, despite the ceasefire, had been “in response to several acts by Hezbollah in Lebanon that posed a threat to Israeli civilians, in violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.” It said it had struck military vehicles at a Hezbollah missile manufacturing site in the Beqaa Valley and tunnels near the Syrian border in northern Lebanon.
Both the United States and French governments have warned Israel that they believe the Israeli military has violated the terms of the ceasefire, according to CNN affiliate Kan and Israeli news outlet Ynet.
A source with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, says Israel has breached its ceasefire agreement with Lebanon “approximately 100” times since the truce went into effect last week. CNN has asked the IDF for comment.
Israel is above the law, ceasefires don't apply to them...
Hezbollah fires ‘defensive response’ to Israeli ‘ceasefire violations’
On Telegram, the group called its attack on an Israeli military site in the Kfarchouba hills an “initial warning defensive response”, carried out following “repeated violations” of the ceasefire between it and Israel.
Since the ceasefire went into effect last week on November 27, Israel has carried out more than two dozen attacks on Lebanese territory, which have killed and wounded people.
Israel says these are in response to violation of the ceasefire and to people moving near its self-imposed no-go zones in territory it occupies in southern Lebanon. However, this marks the first time that Hezbollah has fired back, calling into question whether the tenuous ceasefire can hold.
Hezbollah also cited “the continued violation of Lebanese airspace by hostile Israeli aircraft, all the way to the capital, Beirut” in its justification for these warning shots, and blamed the “concerned authorities” for failing to stop Israeli attacks on Lebanese soil despite the ceasefire.
Under the terms of the agreement, an international committee was tasked with ensuring that no side violates the ceasefire. There has been no statement on Israel’s repeated attacks yet.
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