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Late on May 5, a series of Israeli strikes hit the Beqaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and the country’s southern region, with no casualties reported.
In a statement, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the strikes on Beqaa targeted a “strategic weapons” manufacturing and storage site of Hezbollah. The military added that the group was working to restore the facility, which had been targeted in the past.
The IDF also confirmed that it had struck several sites of Hezbollah in the Srifa area of southern Lebanon, without elaborating.
The Hezbollah activity and the presence of weapons in the targeted sites “constitute blatant violations of the understanding agreement between Israel and Lebanon,” the IDF concluded.
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Last November, Hezbollah accepted a ceasefire proposed by the United States following a costly confrontation with the IDF. The confrontation broke out more than a year earlier as a result of the Israeli war on the group’s ally, the Hamas Movement, in the Gaza Strip.
The ceasefire, which entered into effect on November 27, was supposed to end all clashes on the Israeli-Lebanese border by February 18. However, the Israeli military continues to launch strikes against Hezbollah.
Last week, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said that the country’s military took control of 85% of the south, the heartland of Hezbollah, in line with the ceasefire agreement which calls on both the group and the IDF to withdraw from the region. Israel continues to defy the agreement by maintaining troops at five strategic points there.
While both the Lebanese government and Hezbollah are making efforts to implement the U.S.-brokered agreement and maintain the ceasefire, the IDF continues to escalate.
Israel may be planning to renew the war later and deal a final blow to Hezbollah, similar to what it is trying to do with Hamas in Gaza now.
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