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Israel destroys vehicle, building in southern Lebanon air strikes

The Israeli military claimed the vehicle was being used by Hezbollah members to transport weapons from an arms depot in southern Lebanon.

Aerial video footage released on social media announcing the attack showed three people placing several innocuous-looking items, covered in white cloth, inside a white van during the daytime. The video did not show the presence of weapons.

A second clip then showed two missile strikes on which appeared to be the vehicle and a nearby building.

The Israeli military added on social media that it was “committed to the understanding reached between Israel and Lebanon”, in an apparent reference to its much-violated ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Israeli forces are “deployed in southern Lebanon and will work to eliminate any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens,” the military added.

That's not a ceasefire...

Israeli opposition leader derides ‘extremist and deranged government’

Yair Lapid says if an election is called, “most of the coalition members” would not return to the government after Netanyahu had to leave his hospital bed to vote in a decisive budget law.

“We saw what happened here yesterday. A pale and weak prime minister and Ben Gvir makes fun of him in front of the nation … The one who needs to apologise to the citizens of Israel for the past two years and for not returning the kidnapped is the prime minister,” Lapid wrote on X.

“The one who needs to apologise to us is his extremist and deranged government. The one who needs to apologise to us is every member of the coalition who knows that he is giving his hand to the most terrible and failed government in Israeli history.”


Israel’s former defence chief Gallant resigns from parliament

Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has resigned from parliament, after months of disagreements with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s over his conduct of the war in Gaza.

“Just as it is on the battlefield, so it is in public service. There are moments in which one must stop, assess and choose a direction in order to achieve the goals,” Gallant said in a televised statement.

Gallant was fired by Prime Minister Netanyahu in November after repeated disagreements between the two. Both men were issued arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court in the same month.