Illustrative image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Another wave of deadly strikes targeted Lebanon on November 10 amid reports suggesting that Israel was pushing the Lebanese military into a confrontation with Hezbollah.
Most of the strikes targeted southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley, with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) later announcing that its struck sites used by Hezbollah for rocket launches and the production and storage of strategic weapons.
In a statement, the IDF said that the strikes, guided by the Military Intelligence Directorate and carried out with the air force under the Northern Command, were aimed at neutralizing weapons directed at Israel and preventing Hezbollah from rebuilding its “terror infrastructure.”
The presence of such facilities violates the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and pledges to continue acting to eliminate threats, the military added, referring to the ceasefire brokered by the United States close to a year ago.
According to the IDF, the strikes destroyed a site in southern Lebanon previously used by Hezbollah to launch rockets, where activity by the group was detected in recent months. Meanwhile in the Nabatieh area, the military said that it struck several more Hezbollah targets. And in the Beqaa Valley, the military said that it targeted infrastructure at a site used by the group to store and manufacture strategic weapons.
In another statement released later, the IDF announced that it killed three Hezbollah members in separate strikes across southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours.
The military said that one of those killed was Samir Ali Fakih, a Hezbollah member involved in smuggling weapons for the group across Lebanon. He was targeted in a strike in the town of Srifa. It added that two additional Hezbollah members were killed a day earlier in the towns of Houmine al-Faouqa and al-Sawana.
Israel has been launching strikes against Hezbollah on a regular basis since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Lebanon came into effect on November 27 of last year, citing “violations” by the group.
Under military pressure from Israel, the Lebanese government approved in August a plan to disarm Hezbollah in line with a proposal presented by the U.S. And in September, the government announced that it has begun to implement the plan. Hezbollah, however, rejected any talk of disarmament.
The latest wave of strikes came after Reuters published a report revealing that Israel is pressing the Lebanese military to be more aggressive in disarming Hezbollah by searching private homes in the south of the country for weaponry.
The demand emerged in recent weeks and was rejected by Lebanon’s military leadership, who fear it would ignite civil strife and derail a disarmament strategy seen by the army as cautious but effective, three Lebanese security officials told the news agency.
According to the report, the Lebanese military is confident it can declare Lebanon’s south free of Hezbollah arms by the end of the year, in line with the ceasefire in place.
A sweep of valleys and forests has located more than 50 tunnels and resulted in the confiscation of over 50 guided missiles and hundreds of other weapons, two Lebanese civilian sources briefed on military operations said to Reuters.
The security officials and a political official told the news agency that Beirut also worries that Israel will keep moving the goalposts, creating a permanent risk of escalatory strikes and undermining attempts to stabilize a country battered by geopolitical and economic upheavals.
Meanwhile, two Israeli officials said to Reuters Hezbollah is accelerating efforts to re-arm from properties in the south and further north, and that the Lebanese military is failing to confront it.
In an address to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on November 10 that Israel is determined to enforce the ceasefire agreements in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon “with an iron fist.”
“You can see what is happening every day in Lebanon,” he said, referring to near-daily Israeli strikes against Hezbollah.
Israel began to escalate against Lebanon directly after a ceasefire was reached in Gaza last month. Multiple recent reports from Hebrew and Arab media suggest that the IDF is preparing a new military operation, mainly a large aerial campaign, against Hezbollah. It has already killed 15 members of the group since the start of the month.
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its a bit like the demilitarsation of the rhineland post ww1. the french ruled supreme executed germans at will abused the civil population etc. what happened in consequence. a weakened weimar republic was taken over by the nazis and hell was unleashed.
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imperialism chauvinism and colonialism. napoleon 3’s stupid war started this (trouble at home➵ foreign war, yes other reasons but ignores the warnings of military staff)➵defeat➵«revenge» with ww1 humiliating and abusive conditions of surrender+hardship imposed on the population of what became germany later. freikorps violence back from colonial genocides➵nazis used to suppress revolts in weimar.
the colonial imperialist mentality and legacy and the violent suppression methods back from genocidal missions against nama and herrero peoples in namibia influenced men like franz ritter von epp who led freikorps epp and mentored nazis such as heinrich himmler and reinhard heydrich. ernst röhm and rudolf höss also joined freikorps.
giving in to zionist demands won’t end well because there will always be more demands.
absolutely! zionist invaders lie so many times, are no reasonable actors, they want all for themselves and are hellbent on turning the levant and further into actual hell for others. that is the yinon plan ‘divide and conquer’. they are attempting to push the lebanese gov into a suicidal move and turn zio colonial war into civil war in all the countries they are preying upon.
they want another civil war in lebanon, i just hope the lebanese christians have learned their lesson from last time when many collaborated with the zionist criminals.
when israel speaks it falls on many deaf ears . it is very interesting they seek more war. perhaps amerika is not exhausted enough from buying this war for the zionist zealots
israel only can attack from air ( airstrikes) because they know that ground forces would be defeated by hezbollah because since 2006 idf have been unable to reach to latani river..
rather disarm the aggressive bigotted invaders who pretend to hear what they want that the other side never agreed with during cease fire deals and then pretend to enforce a cease fire by constantly violating it!