Israel launched several strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanese state media reported, as the Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah infrastructure including a military compound.<\/p>\n
The attacks come as the committee monitoring the ceasefire, in effect since November 2024, which includes the United States, France and the UN in addition to Lebanon and Israel, is set to meet on Friday.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported\u00a0several strikes in the south and east.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said it targeted \u201cterror infrastructure sites in multiple areas across Lebanon\u201d including \u201ca military compound used by Hezbollah to conduct training and courses\u201d for the Iran-backed group\u2019s members.<\/p>\n
In another statement, the military said: \u201cA short while ago, the IDF struck a Hezbollah terrorist in the area of Taybeh in southern Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said four people were wounded in the Taybeh strike.<\/p>\n
But the NNA reported that the strike wounded several employees in Lebanon\u2019s state electricity company, as their truck was passing next to the targeted vehicle.<\/p>\n
Despite the ceasefire that was supposed to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and militant group Hezbollah, Israel has intensified its attacks.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, two people were killed in Israeli strikes, one of them 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Beirut.<\/p>\n
Around 340 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the ceasefire agreement went into force, according to an AFP tally of health ministry reports.<\/p>\n
Under a government-approved plan, Lebanon\u2019s army is to disarm Hezbollah south of the Litani by the end of the year, before tackling the rest of the country.<\/p>\n
Israel accuses the group of rearming and has cast doubt on the Lebanese army\u2019s ability to dismantle Hezbollah\u2019s military infrastructure.<\/p>\n
A meeting on Lebanon is taking place on Thursday in Paris with the Lebanese army chief and American and Saudi officials, at a time when France and the United States are pressuring the Lebanese government to accelerate Hezbollah\u2019s disarmament.<\/p>\n
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called the Israeli strikes \u201can Israeli message to the Paris conference dedicated to supporting the Lebanese army\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel launched several strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanese state media reported, as the Israeli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,399,46,100524,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-191231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mna","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}