The regime’s military claimed it was targeting alleged Hezbollah sites on Thursday, once again accusing the Lebanese resistance group of refusing to disarm.
Despite the truce, the occupation forces have maintained near-daily attacks on Lebanese soil. Hezbollah said it remains committed to the ceasefire but will not surrender its weapons while Israeli aggression persists.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun denounced the attacks as “a full-fledged crime under international humanitarian law,” condemning the regime for “terrorizing and forcibly displacing civilians.” He added that Israel’s behavior over the past year “shows its rejection of any negotiated settlement.”
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes struck residential neighborhoods in Tyre’s Toura area, killing a Lebanese man and wounding eight others. Another civilian was injured in Tayr Debba.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent Zeina Khodr said the attacks were widely viewed as an escalation, occurring just hours after Hezbollah issued an open letter to Lebanon’s leadership reaffirming its defensive stance. The strikes, she noted, were “being seen as a message from Israel to Hezbollah.”
The regime’s fighter jets also violated Lebanese airspace over Beirut’s southern suburbs, a provocative act often used as psychological warfare.
UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, said Israel’s bombardment “threatens civilians and undermines ongoing stabilization efforts.” While Washington has pressured Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah, it has turned a blind eye to Israel’s continuous breaches of the ceasefire.
“Any military action on such a scale endangers civilians and undermines diplomatic progress,” UNIFIL warned.
Hezbollah reiterated its rejection of any talks with the occupying regime, emphasizing that negotiations “do not serve the national interest.” “We reaffirm our legitimate right to defend ourselves against an enemy that imposes war on our country and does not cease its attacks,” the movement said.
Lebanon and the Israeli regime remain technically at war, communicating only through a UN-brokered channel involving France and the United States.
Nearly a year after Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah’s longtime leader Seyed Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024, tensions remain high. Under the ceasefire, Lebanon’s army was tasked with disarming Hezbollah in the south by year’s end. The resistance group says Israel is exploiting the arrangement to tighten its occupation and insists it will not disarm while Israeli forces remain on Lebanese land and continue their aggression.