BEIRUT, Lebanon: The Israeli military carried out another series of strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday, exactly a year into the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Israeli aircraft launched “a series of raids on Al-Mahmoudiya and Al-Jarmak”, just north of the Litani River.
The November 27, 2024, ceasefire sought to end over a year of hostilities between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
But Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to stop the group from rearming.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said his country was “in a one-sided war of attrition that is escalating”.
After Thursday’s strikes, the Israeli military said in a statement that it struck several areas in southern Lebanon.
Israel’s military “will continue to operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel”, it said.
On Thursday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the United Nations’ special coordinator for Lebanon, who said that a year on from the ceasefire, “uncertainty remains”.
“For too many Lebanese, the conflict is ongoing — albeit at a lower intensity. And one does not need a crystal ball to understand that as long as the current status quo continues, the spectre of future hostilities will continue to loom large,” she said.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday warned there would be “no calm” in Lebanon.
