WORLD NEWS: Despite the truce in Lebanon, strikes persist between Israel and Hezbollah
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Despite an extended three-week ceasefire on April 23 – announced by Donald Trump after two sessions of talks in Washington at the level of the Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors – the weapons continue to speak in Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah continue to accuse each other of violating the truce. Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed four people on Monday and left 51 injured. Among the victims of these strikes are a woman, killed, and three children who were injured, said the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The pro-Iranian Hezbollah, for its part, claimed new attacks against Israeli troops deployed in the South, notably against a Merkava tank in Kantara, and a bulldozer which “demolished houses in the town of Bint Jbeil”. Many deaths since the start of the truce According to a count based on figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, Israeli strikes have killed at least 40 people in Lebanon since the start of the truce on the 17th. April. Fourteen people were killed on Sunday. According to Benjamin Netanyahu, there “still remain two main threats coming from Hezbollah: Type 122 rockets and drones. This requires a combination of operational and technological actions.” The movement still has “around 10% of the missiles” that it held at the start of the war, triggered on March 2 by Hezbollah fire on Israel in response to the Israeli-American offensive against Iran, the Israeli Prime Minister said on Monday in front of senior officers. Accusations are flying between Aoun and Hezbollah At the end of the ceasefire agreement, made public by the American State Department, Israel “is reserves the right to take, at any time, all necessary measures in self-defense against planned, imminent or ongoing attacks.” Its forces demarcated, with a “yellow line”, an area along the border to, according to the government, ensure the security of Israelis.Our articles on LebanonLebanese President Joseph Aoun and Hezbollah for their part exchanged accusations on Monday about direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, to which the Shiite movement is opposed. “My goal is to achieve an end to the state of war with Israel,” said Joseph Aoun, assuring that he “would not accept a humiliating agreement.” “What we are doing is not treason, treason is rather committed by those who drag the country into a war for the benefit of foreign interests,” he said to the Shiite movement. The leader of Hezbollah, Naïm Kassem, had previously accused the Lebanese authorities of having made “gratuitous and humiliating concessions”. “Naïm Qassem is playing with fire, and this fire will burn Hezbollah and all of Lebanon,” warned Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz during a meeting with the UN envoy to Lebanon.
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