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Israel launches airstrike on Lebanon despite ceasefire: Report

December 26, 2024

Beirut, Dec 26

An Israeli airstrike hit a house in eastern Lebanon's Baalbek area, despite a ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel, Lebanese official and military sources said.

The official National News Agency said the dawn strike hit a house in the plain of Taraya village, near the Litani River west of Baalbek on Wednesday, causing no casualties. It accused Israeli warplanes of "violating the ceasefire agreement."

A Lebanese military source told that Israeli artillery also fired several shells at the village of Maroun al-Ras in the southern border area at noon. The source added that "Israeli elements raised the Israeli flag on the Awaida hill on the southern outskirts of the Marjeyoun district."

A ceasefire, meant to halt nearly 14 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, came into effect on November 27. The agreement stipulated an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory within 60 days, with the Lebanese army deploying on the border and in the south to assume security control and ban weapons and militants, news agency reported.

Earlier the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants has filed a complaint through the country's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York with the UN Security Council (UNSC) in response to Israel's repeated violations of its ceasefire agreement with Lebanon.

The Lebanese ministry said on social media platform X that between November 27 and December 22, Israel launched over 816 land and air attacks against Lebanon, shelling border villages, booby-trapping homes, destroying residential neighborhoods, and blocking roads.

 

 

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