return to their villages<\/a>, but people are worried. They say they don\u2019t trust that Israel will abide by the ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\nUnited Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the number of projectiles fired between Israeli forces and Lebanon fell to 174 on Sunday, compared with 705 the previous Sunday.<\/p>\n
Of these, 169 were attributed to Israel and five to Hezbollah, he said.<\/p>\n
Lebanon \u2018most sensitive issue between the sides\u2019<\/p>\n
The situation in Lebanon is one of the main pillars of the US-Iran agreement, Al Jazeera\u2019s Almigdad Alruhaid said, reporting from Tehran.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we approach the signing of the deal, it is becoming the most sensitive issue between the sides,\u201d Alruhaid said.<\/p>\n
Iran said the Israeli military has violated the ceasefire in Lebanon 84 times in the past two days and warned that Israel should expect \u201ca harsh response\u201d if it does not stop its attacks, he reported.<\/p>\n
This came after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the withdrawal of the Israeli military from Lebanese territory is one of the core demands right now to move forward with the framework agreement Iran has with the US, Alruhaid said: \u201cSo the Iranians say the situation in Lebanon, in particular southern Lebanon, is an integral part of the memorandum of understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lebanon was among the top priorities for the Iranians when they started negotiations with US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, according to Mohammad Eslami from Tehran University.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce the Iranians not only retaliated against the Israeli attacks on Dahiyeh and Beirut but also pre-emptively attacked Israeli territory, they showed right from the outset they are determined and very serious about supporting Lebanon, the Lebanese people, the Lebanese government and the resistance factions in Lebanon,\u201d Eslami told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s invasion akin to \u2018war crimes\u2019<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday that the Israeli army\u2019s mass forced displacement orders in Lebanon amount to war crimes under international law.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn parts of southern Lebanon, the Israeli military\u2019s forced displacement of civilians and prevention of their return amounts to unlawful transfer \u2013 which is a war crime,\u201d Amnesty said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Israeli army has \u201cradically expanded\u201d its use of such orders, displacing hundreds of thousands of people across Lebanon, it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of forcibly uprooting communities and designating entire swathes of Lebanese land as \u2018no-go zones\u2019 for civilians, Israeli forces must immediately withdraw from Lebanese territory,\u201d said Kristine Beckerle, Amnesty International\u2019s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military declared about 4.6 percent of Lebanon as a \u201cno-go zone\u201d on November 28, 2024, a day after a previous ceasefire took effect, Amnesty noted.<\/p>\n
This year, just three days after an April 17 ceasefire announcement, the restricted area was expanded to about 6 percent of the country, and residents were ordered not to return to villages previously home to tens of thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n
Lebanese officials said Israel, which has been carrying out a large-scale offensive in the country since March 2, has killed more than 3,800 people, wounded 11,850 and displaced more than one million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli air strikes have continued to target towns in southern Lebanon despite an agreement between the United States…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,48084,88,47,43,162198],"class_list":["post-497442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497442","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=497442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}