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2025-01-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli airstrikes wound 24 in Lebanon despite ceasefire
[GEO.TV] Israeli strikes maimed 24 people in south Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
Tuesday despite a ceasefire in force for more than six weeks, the Lebanese health ministry said.

The first strike hit the southern town of Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa, wounding 20 people, the ministry said, updating a previous toll of 14 injured.

It added that another strike on the neighbouring town of Zawtar maimed four people.

At around 7:30 pm, an Israeli drone carried out "a strike with a guided missile targeting a small vegetable truck" in Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The town lies north of the Litani River but only around 10 kilometres (seven miles) from the Israeli border.

The view from Israel:
IDF says it struck Hezbollah arms convoy in Lebanon

[israelTimes] Lebanon PM condemns strike, also says Israel freed 9 Lebanese POWs and calls for release of 9 more; IDF again warns displaced southern Lebanese against returning after deadly riots

The IDF said it targeted a truck and other Hezbollah vehicles used to transfer weapons on Tuesday in southern Leb
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
in violation of the ceasefire agreement. Lebanon’s health ministry reported fourteen people maimed in the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
"The truck and vehicles were struck after being monitored by the IDF while transferring the weapons," the military added.

The strike came as the IDF again warned Lebanese civilians against returning to villages in southern Lebanon, where Israel has said it would remain until February 18. Israel had been due to withdraw by January 26, but said it could not do so as the Lebanese army had not yet deployed in those areas.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said that at around 7:30 p.m., "a strike with a guided missile targeting a small vegetable truck" in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, which lies north of the Litani River but just 10 kilometers (seven miles) from the Israeli border.

Under the deal, Hezbollah must pullback north of the Litani — some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Israel — while Israel is entitled to strike threats it considers imminent, and forward less imminent threats to a monitoring committee comprising representatives of Lebanon, Israel, La Belle France, the United States and UNIFIL.

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati assailed the strike on Nabatieh al-Fawqa. During a phone call with US General Jasper Jeffers, who chairs the monitoring committee, Mikati urged a firm stance to guarantee Israel implements its commitments, according to a statement from the premier’s office.

Mikati also said Tuesday that Israel had freed nine Lebanese prisoners of war, whose identities and affiliations were unclear, under the terms of the six-week-old ceasefire deal. He called on Israel to free nine more prisoners, and thanked the Red Thingy, which welcomed the release. Israel has yet to comment on the statement.

Mikati had already appealed to the United States on Sunday to use its influence with Israel to secure the release of Lebanese detained by Israel during the war.

A source close to Hezbollah told AFP on Monday that seven of the terror group’s operatives had been captured in the fighting.

IDF troops also detained some Lebanese on Sunday — Israel’s original deadline for withdrawal — amid deadly protests as displaced residents tried to return to southern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s health ministry has said 24 people were killed and over 130 maimed by IDF gunfire in demonstrations on Sunday, and another two were killed and 17 maimed in demonstrations again on Monday.

The military has issued warnings to the displaced residents not to return, and accused Hezbollah of "provocations" in the protests, where returning residents were seen hoisting the Iran-backed terror group’s insignia. In an interview Monday, a leading Christian Lebanese politician accused Hezbollah of sending displaced residents to a "certain death" by pushing them to return.

On Tuesday, Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, again cautioned displaced southern Lebanese to stay away as Israeli troops in the area work to "enable the effective deployment of the Lebanese army, and dismantle and remove the Hezbollah terror group."

"I remind you that the agreement period has been extended and IDF forces are still deployed on the ground. The deployment process is taking place gradually and in some sectors, it is being postponed and requires more time to ensure that Hezbollah cannot re-establish its strength there," he said.

"Hezbollah, as usual, puts its narrow interests above the interests of the Lebanese state and tries through its mouthpieces to heat up the situation, despite being the main reason for the destruction of the south," he added.

The IDF front man said that "until further notice, all previously published instructions remain in effect," and the military will update when it is safe to return to the border villages.

The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
High Commissioner for Refugees reported in December, days after the ceasefire began, that some 1.3 million Lebanese had been displaced in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Hezbollah’s near-daily attacks on Israeli border towns forced the displacement of some 60,000 northern Israelis.

Unprovoked, Hezbollah began firing at the north on October 8, 2023 — a day after thousands of Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
-led gunnies stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...

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