Israel commits 15 ceasefire violations in Lebanon in one day
We have been reporting on the Israeli military’s repeated ceasefire violations in southern Lebanon.
According to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues, Israeli forces committed 15 ceasefire violations on Thursday alone, bringing the total number of violations since the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah came into effect on November 27 to 823.
Israel’s latest violations of the ceasefire took place in the southern districts of Marjayoun, Bint Jbeil and Hasbaiyya, as well as the Nabatieh and Tyre governorates.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israel attacked hospitals 68 times since October 2023
The Ministry of Health in Lebanon has issued a new report mapping Israeli attacks on health facilities since the beginning of the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel on October 8, 2023.
It concluded that Israel conducted 68 attacks on 38 hospitals. As a result, eight were closed and seven remained open, but only partially operational.
A total of 16 people were killed and 74 injured in these attacks. Twenty-five vehicles were also damaged.
Israeli military confirms strikes on targets in eastern Lebanon
Israel’s army said its fighter jets bombed “several targets of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation” overnight in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, in the latest violation of a ceasefire deal that’s been in place since November.
The Israeli military said it bombed the targets as they “posed a threat to the Israeli home front” and its armed forces.
It listed a “military site with underground infrastructure” as one of the targets it struck, adding that Hezbollah was using the site “for the development and production of weapons and transit infrastructure on the Syrian-Lebanon border”.
The Israeli military also accused Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire agreement by flying a reconnaissance drone into Israeli territory on Thursday.
As we reported earlier, the Israeli military violated the ceasefire agreement 15 times on Thursday alone.
Lebanese civilians carry a man injured by Israeli fire in Borj el-Mlouk, on the outskirts of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon, on January 26
Two killed, 10 injured in overnight Israeli air raid on eastern Lebanon: Report
We’ve been reporting on a series of overnight Israeli attacks on eastern Lebanon. One of the aerial attacks, in the town of Yanta in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, killed two people and injured 10, reports Lebanon’s National News Agency, citing the Health Ministry.
Lebanon rejects any delay in Israeli withdrawal: President
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has told Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty that Beirut is committed to Israel’s withdrawal from the country by February 18, according to a statement by the Lebanese presidency.
Lebanon “rejects any delay under any pretext”, Aoun told the Egyptian minister as he held talks with him in Beirut.
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