Israel’s army says it plans to attack southern Lebanon
The Israeli air force will attack “Hezbollah military infrastructure” in southern Lebanon “in response to its attempts to rebuild its activities in the area”, an army spokesperson says.
“Urgent warning to the residents of southern Lebanon – the [army] will attack, in the near future, military infrastructure belonging to the terrorist Hezbollah throughout southern Lebanon in order to confront its prohibited attempts to rebuild its activities in the area,” Avichay Adraee said in a post on X.
Hezbollah and Israeli forces had been exchanging near-daily fire across the Lebanese border since the onset of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023. Israel’s widespread bombing campaign killed more than 3,000 people and displaced nearly one million civilians. A ceasefire with Hezbollah was signed in November 2024, but Israel has continued to bomb southern Lebanon repeatedly since.
PM Salam says Lebanon committed to ceasefire, Israel is not
As Israel prepares to bomb several areas across south Lebanon, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of carrying out “intimidation and aggression” outside the framework of last year’s ceasefire agreement and the internationally backed mechanism to monitor it.
“Lebanon calls on the international community, especially the countries sponsoring the agreement to cease hostilities, to exert maximum pressure on Israel to immediately stop its aggressions,” he said in a statement.
France and the United States are the main sponsors of the deal.
Salam also called for pressuring Israel to withdraw from the Lebanese areas that it still occupies and to release Lebanese captives in its custody.
