Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned early Saturday’s airstrikes that targeted “civilian facilities,” which, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, resulted in the death of one person. The Israeli army claimed it had struck Hezbollah-related infrastructure.
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Despite a ceasefire that has been in effect for months, Israel continues to carry out air raids it says target Hezbollah members and military sites, particularly in the south.
“Once again, South Lebanon is under the fire of blatant Israeli aggression against civilian facilities—without justification or even pretext,” Aoun said in a statement.
He warned that “the gravity of this latest aggression lies in its timing, as it comes after the ceasefire agreement in Gaza,” where the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect at noon on Friday. There are growing concerns in Lebanon that Israel may escalate its strikes against Hezbollah, which continues to refuse to hand over its weapons to the state.
Aoun added that the timing “poses fundamental challenges for us as Lebanese and for the international community, including the question of whether there are those who seek to ‘compensate for Gaza in Lebanon’—to sustain their political survival through fire and bloodshed.”
According to the state-run National News Agency, ten airstrikes targeted “six heavy machinery and excavator workshops along the Msayleh road, resulting in the destruction and burning of a large number of vehicles.” The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that the strikes killed one Syrian national and injured seven others—one Syrian and six Lebanese, including two women.
Msayleh, which houses the residence of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, is located in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Sidon, the largest city in the south, and lies more than 40 kilometers from the Israeli border.
For its part, the Israeli army stated that it had attacked “Hezbollah infrastructure used to store engineering equipment intended for rebuilding terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon.”
It added that “Hezbollah continues its efforts to restore terrorist infrastructure across Lebanon, endangering Lebanese civilians and using them as human shields.”
(Al-Mamlaka + AFP)
