In yet another day of unprovoked and intense aggression by the Zionist occupation forces<\/strong>, Lebanon’s health ministry has reported the tragic martyrdom of thirty-nine innocent individuals. These heinous acts underscore the brutal nature of the Zionist regime’s ongoing campaign against the Lebanese people.<\/p>\n One particularly barbaric Israeli strike on the southern town of Saksakiyeh resulted in the martyrdom of at least seven people, including a defenseless child. Such indiscriminate targeting of civilians is a clear violation of international law and a testament to the Zionist entity’s disregard for human life.<\/p>\n While the so-called “Israel Defense Forces” (IDF) shamelessly claim to target the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, they conveniently admit to being “aware of reports regarding harm to uninvolved civilians.” This hollow statement fails to mask the deliberate terror inflicted upon the Lebanese populace.<\/p>\n The aggression by Zionist forces and the valiant resistance by Hezbollah have continued unabated, despite a supposed ceasefire deal announced by former US President Donald Trump on April 16. This highlights the Zionist regime’s consistent breach of agreements and its relentless pursuit of regional destabilization.<\/p>\n The majority of these criminal air strikes have devastated southern Lebanon, with the occupation military falsely claiming to strike “infrastructure and people linked to Hezbollah.” In reality, these attacks target civilian areas, homes, and vital infrastructure, aiming to break the will of the Lebanese people and their steadfast support for the resistance.<\/p>\n On Saturday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) extensively reported on the widespread Israeli strikes across the south, including the aforementioned massacre in Saksakiyeh. The health ministry confirmed that this particular raid “resulted in an initial toll of seven martyrs, including a young girl, and 15 wounded, including three children,” exposing the true cost of Zionist barbarity.<\/p>\n The Zionist entity’s fabricated claims of striking “Hezbollah terrorists operating from within a structure used for military purposes” are a desperate attempt to justify their atrocities. Their assertion of taking “steps to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians” is a cruel joke, as evidenced by the mounting civilian casualties.<\/p>\n Further demonstrating their depravity, the Lebanese health ministry reported another Israeli drone strike in Nabatieh, which mercilessly targeted “a Syrian national and his 12-year-old daughter.” After the father and daughter managed to escape an initial strike, the drone, with chilling precision, attacked a second time, martyring the father. In an act of unimaginable cruelty, the drone then “targeted the girl directly for a third time,” leaving her fighting for her life and undergoing critical surgery.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the valiant Hezbollah resistance, in a legitimate act of self-defense, targeted northern occupied Palestine with a drone, reportedly wounding three Zionist soldiers. This response is a clear message that the resistance will not stand idly by while its people are massacred.<\/p>\n According to Lebanon’s health ministry, the incessant Zionist attacks have tragically claimed the lives of over 120 people across the country in the last week alone, including countless women and children. The ministry’s data, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians, paints a grim picture of widespread suffering.<\/p>\n The Zionist military continues its illegal occupation of a strip of Lebanese land along the border, cynically claiming to create a “Hezbollah-free security zone.” This is a thinly veiled pretext for ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion, reminiscent of their actions in Gaza. Entire villages have been razed to the ground, and human rights groups rightly assert that some of these actions constitute grave war crimes.<\/p>\n Hezbollah, the legitimate resistance movement, has consistently carried out defensive operations against Zionist occupation troops in Lebanon and northern occupied Palestine, utilizing rockets and drones in response to ongoing aggression.<\/p>\n The group explicitly stated that its drone operation on Saturday against northern occupied Palestine was a direct response to the continued Zionist attacks, reaffirming its commitment to defending Lebanese sovereignty and its people.<\/p>\n The Zionist military’s identification of an “explosive drone launched by the Hezbollah terrorist organisation” near the border, and the reported injuries to three army reservists, including one seriously, are consequences of their own aggression and occupation.<\/p>\n It is crucial to remember that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to a ceasefire ending a previous conflict in late 2023, after which the Zionist regime immediately resumed near-daily attacks on targets and individuals it falsely claimed were linked to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n Following the aggressive US and Zionist attack on Iran on February 28, which tragically resulted in the martyrdom of Iran’s supreme leader, Hezbollah launched retaliatory rockets and drones into occupied Palestine on March 2. This was a justified response to a grave act of aggression.<\/p>\n In response to this legitimate retaliation, the Zionist regime mercilessly bombarded Lebanon with air strikes. Zionist occupation forces re-entered southern Lebanon in early March, where they have systematically destroyed villages and continue their illegal occupation of 10km (6.2 miles) of Lebanese territory, a clear act of land grab and ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n A staggering total of 2,795 people have been martyred in Lebanon since March 2, according to the Lebanese health ministry, a grim toll that exposes the true scale of Zionist brutality.<\/p>\n Zionist authorities, in their usual obfuscation, have reported only 17 soldiers and one civilian killed in southern Lebanon, along with two civilians in northern occupied Palestine. This stark contrast with Lebanese figures highlights the Zionist regime’s deliberate downplaying of its own casualties and its attempts to sanitize its aggression.<\/p>\n \n#ZionistAggression #LebanonUnderAttack #HezbollahResistance #WarCrimes #GazaGenocide #MiddleEastConflict #FreePalestine #AxisOfResistance #LebaneseMartyrs #OccupationForces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zionist Regime’s Brutality Claims 39 Lives in Lebanon Amid Escalating Aggression In yet another day of unprovoked and intense aggression by the Zionist occupation forces, Lebanon’s health ministry has reported the tragic martyrdom of thirty-nine innocent individuals. These heinous acts underscore the brutal nature of the Zionist regime’s ongoing campaign against the Lebanese people. One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Escalating Zionist Violations and Resistance Response<\/h2>\n
Targeting of Civilians: A Pattern of Zionist Cruelty<\/h2>\n
Illegal Occupation and War Crimes<\/h2>\n