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Israeli military launches more attacks on southern Lebanon

The Israeli military reportedly launched more strikes across southern Lebanon overnight. At midnight, Israeli forces “carried out a bombing operation” in the vicinity of the town of Bani Haiyyan, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

Another attack was reported in Kfar Kila and “the sound of which was heard throughout the south”, NNA reports.

Earlier, the agency said Israeli forces are “combing the city of Bint Jbeil with heavy machine guns” from their positions on the outskirts of the town of Maroun al-Ras.

The attacks are only the latest violations by Israel’s military of a ceasefire with Hezbollah that has been in place since late November.


Lebanese soldiers on December 23, 2024, stand near the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon


Lebanese army: Israeli military keeps violating ceasefire deal despite UN patrols

Lebanon’s military says “Israeli violations continue in villages occupied by the enemy” in the southern part of the country.

Israeli bulldozers demolished homes in several neighbourhoods of the town of Naqoura, delaying the entry of the army, according to the National News Agency.

The Lebanese army said it keeps patrolling the road connecting Biyyada and Naqoura in the south with the UN’s Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), also placing barricades on a coastal road between Hamra and Naqoura to prevent unauthorised movement. UNIFIL’s headquarters is located in Naqoura.

The army command also announced it will detonate unexploded ordnance in the area of Marjayoun.


Pressure from US, Israel led to Beirut airport searches: Report

The searching of passengers and their luggage onboard a Mahan Air flight going from Tehran to Beirut last night that we reported earlier was a result of outside pressure, Iranian state media reports.

“This happened by order of the Lebanese interior minister and with American-Israeli pressure as they had assumed that Iran was using Mahan Air to transfer money [to Hezbollah], so they searched all the luggage and found nothing,” an unnamed source from the Iranian embassy in Lebanon told the Tasnim news website.

“There was a small, normal briefcase which had to pass without checks based on diplomatic rules, but there was an insistence to open it. The issue was resolved with the intervention of the Lebanese Foreign Ministry and it entered without inspections.”

The source was quoted as saying that demonstrators then made their way to the Iranian embassy to show their support for Tehran, and to protest that Lebanese passengers were subjected to intense scrutiny.