Lebanon has reported that Israel carried out a series of airstrikes this Tuesday in the middle of a possible truce that has not yet been confirmed. According to state media, Israeli aircraft attacked the Nweiri district three times, and in the first attack Seven people died and 37 were injured, according to the Ministry of Health. State media also said the Mazraa area had been hit.
The Israel Defense Forces have for the first time urged evacuate buildings located in the central area of Beirutin anticipation of potential bombings that would occur just a few hours after the theoretical approval of a ceasefire in Lebanon.
A military spokesman, Avichay Adraee, has spread on social networks images of the buildings that would be attacked and that the IDF links to the Hezbollah militia party. Recommend the “immediate” evacuation of buildings and stay at least 50 meters away.
Israeli forces have concentrated their attacks on Beirut in the southern area of the city, considered a Hezbollah stronghold, and this Tuesday they had launched a new wave of “large-scale attacks.” Within the ground offensive, The troops have reached the Litani River, an unprecedented milestone since the withdrawal in 2000.
All this before a foreseeable temporary interruption of attacks, fruit of a ceasefire that has yet to be formally approved by the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Zero tolerance” for potential ceasefire violations
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has warned that he will have “zero tolerance” with potential violations of the foreseeable ceasefire with Hezbollah and has called for greater involvement of the United Nations Interim Force for Lebanon (UNIFIL), which it has demanded an “effective” deployment to avoid future threats.
Katz, who received this Tuesday the UN special envoy for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has warned that Israel will not allow Hezbollah to gain strength again before the “closed eyes” of UNIFIL, a mission that has involved ‘de facto’ in the event of a ceasefire.
The minister considers that it is up to the supervisory mechanisms to prevent smuggling and the manufacture of weapons for the benefit of the Shiite group, as well as the establishment of new structures from which the militiamen may continue to pose a threat to the northern part of Israelreports the Ministry of Defense in a statement.
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