Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A heavy wave of Israeli strikes targeted southern Lebanon on May 8, targeting what the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) described as a “significant underground” facility belonging to Hezbollah.
The facility near the Beaufort Castle, southeast of the town of Nabatieh, was used by the group to manage rocket fire and defense systems, the IDF said in a statement, noting that the strikes targeted “terrorists, weapons, and tunnel shafts” there.
“This site is part of a significant underground project that, due to IDF strikes, has been rendered inoperable,” the military said.
It added that the facility and the activities carried out there “constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
Lebanese media said that some 20 strikes hit the area. Meanwhile, the country’s health ministry said that the strikes killed one person and wounded at least eight others.
Last November, the United States brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon following more than 14 months of border clashes that broke out as a result of the war in the Gaza Strip. The ceasefire entered into effect on November 27 and was supposed to end all clashes by February 18. However, the Israeli military continued to launch strikes against Hezbollah and its allies.
The IDF also continues to maintain five strategic posts in southern Lebanon, in a challenge to the ceasefire which calls for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters from the region and the deployment of the Lebanese military and United Nations forces.
Hezbollah, which was deeply weakened by the last confrontation, has so far refrained from responding to Israel’s repeated attacks.
The recent escalation by the IDF suggests that Israel is looking for a chance to renew its war on Lebanon, similar to what it did in Gaza earlier this year.
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i feel like the word ‘terrorist’ has lost objective meaning at this point.
80-90m total dead ww2.
(((they))) only ever remind us of ‘the six million’. 1/15 of the total.
then they do shit like this. gaza. hannibal’d their own on 1/6.
demons are real. they walk this earth with us. we fought the wrong side in ww2.
israel breaks cease fire and creates blame on lebanon to carpet bomb civilians so the can put up a security post on the high ground they just cleared . this is just more expansion