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SvennoJ on 02 December 2024
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Main points for December 2nd

  • Israeli forces bombed southern Lebanon again, killing at least nine people in two towns and bringing the death toll on Monday to 11. The victims included a Lebanese security official.
  • The latest attacks came after Hezbollah fired missiles at an Israeli military position in the disputed Shebaa Farms, in what it called “defensive warning shots” over repeated Israeli violations of the ceasefire that went into effect last week.
  • In Gaza, the Israeli military issued new forced displacement orders for parts of southern Khan Younis, telling Palestinians there to leave “immediately”.
  • Israeli forces also continued to bombard the enclave, killing at least nine people in central and northern Gaza, including two people in an attack on a busy marketplace in Gaza City.
  • Gaza’s Government Media Office says 3,700 people have been killed or are missing since Israeli forces laid siege to northern areas of the enclave 60 days ago.
  • Hamas said 33 captives held in Gaza have been killed since the start of Israel’s nearly 14-month-old war and blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their fate.

Nine killed in Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, Health Ministry says

At least five people have been killed in renewed Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon’s town of Haris, and two others were wounded, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said in a post on X.

It said four other people were killed, and one was wounded, in an attack on southern Lebanon’s Tallouseh village in the Nabatieh governorate.

Israel has resumed bombarding Lebanon after a fragile US-brokered ceasefire came into effect last week.


Israel, Lebanon tell US they are committed to ceasefire: Report

Both Israeli and Lebanese officials told their US counterparts that they remain committed to the US-brokered ceasefire agreement and want it to continue, despite the recent escalation on the border and reciprocal accusations of ceasefire violations.

The comments, reported by the news site Axios and attributed to sources with knowledge of the issue, come as the truce agreement was pushed to the brink and US officials grow concerned about its durability after Israel killed eleven people in southern Lebanon and Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military base.

Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer met with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan at the White House on Monday and told him that Israel also spoke to Lebanese and Israeli officials who stressed their commitment to the ceasefire.

US special envoy Amos Hochstein told the officials that the ceasefire monitoring mechanism established under the agreement should be notified of violations so that it can address them.