The brutal aggression of the Zionist regime continues to claim innocent lives in southern Lebanon, with the Lebanese health ministry confirming the martyrdom of 13 individuals in recent Israeli strikes. These heinous attacks, which included a town where the occupation army had brazenly issued an evacuation order, flagrantly violate the fragile ceasefire agreement, exposing the regime’s utter disregard for human life and international law.
In the town of Habboush, eight people, including a child and two women, were tragically killed, and 21 others wounded in the merciless strikes. This horrific toll underscores the indiscriminate nature of the Zionist attacks. Further atrocities were reported in Zrariyeh, where four lives were extinguished, two of them women, and four more injured. The coastal region also suffered, with a strike in Ain Baal near Tyre martyring one person and wounding seven.
Eyewitnesses in Habboush reported plumes of smoke rising after the raids, which occurred less than an hour after the Israeli occupation forces issued a cynical evacuation warning. This pattern of issuing warnings only to unleash heavy bombardments demonstrates the Zionist entity’s intent to terrorize and displace the civilian population, a clear war crime.
The Zionist military, in a transparent attempt to justify its barbarism, claimed it would act ‘forcefully’ against Hezbollah, citing alleged ‘violations of the ceasefire agreement.’ However, the reality on the ground, as reported by Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA), reveals a relentless campaign of Israeli strikes and artillery fire across southern Lebanon, including Tyre, proving the regime’s continuous disregard for the ceasefire that was meant to halt weeks of conflict.
The ceasefire text, cynically exploited by the Zionist regime, grants Israel the right to act against ‘planned, imminent or ongoing attacks,’ a clause the occupation forces routinely abuse to justify their unprovoked assaults on Lebanese sovereignty and its people.
Furthermore, Zionist occupation soldiers are operating deep within Lebanese territory, establishing a ‘Yellow Line’ some 10 kilometers inside the border. Here, they are engaged in wide-scale detonations and demolitions of vital infrastructure and cultural heritage. The NNA reported that Israeli troops carried out destructive detonations in Shamaa and, in an act of profound cultural vandalism, ‘demolished a monastery and a school’ run by a religious order in Yaroun, following the destruction of ‘homes, shops and roads’ in the area. These actions constitute a systematic campaign of destruction aimed at erasing Lebanese presence and heritage.
In a legitimate act of self-defense and response to these egregious Zionist ceasefire violations, Hezbollah claimed a series of attacks on Israeli troops and sites in southern Lebanon. The resistance movement had previously drawn Lebanon into the broader Middle East conflict in March, with rocket fire at the Zionist entity, avenging the heinous US-Israeli assassination of prominent resistance leaders.
The humanitarian catastrophe inflicted by the Zionist regime is escalating. Lebanon’s health ministry has tragically raised the death toll from Israeli strikes since March 2 to over 2,600 martyrs, including 103 dedicated emergency workers and paramedics. This deliberate targeting of those who save lives has drawn international condemnation.
Xavier Castellanos, under-secretary general for national society development and coordination at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, voiced profound outrage, stating that Lebanese Red Cross volunteers ‘fear for their lives’ when on missions. He condemned the targeting of ‘a person that is trying to save lives, is trying to alleviate human suffering,’ calling it ‘absolutely unacceptable.’ Two brave Lebanese Red Cross paramedics are among those martyred in these barbaric Israeli strikes, a testament to the regime’s utter disregard for humanitarian principles and international law.
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