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Israeli forces in Southern Lebanon on Sunday opened fire on protesters demanding their withdrawal in accordance with a Ceasefire agreement, at least 15 and wounding more than 80, Lebanese Health officials reported.
The dead included two women and a Lebanese army soldier, the health ministry said in a statement. People were reported injured in more than a dozen villages in the border area.
Demonstrators, some of them carrying Hezbollah flags, tried to enter several villages to protest South Dayon’s deadline in a CeaseFire agreement that ends the Israel-Hezbollah war. .
Israel has that it should stay longer, because the Lebanese army has not committed to all the areas of Southern Lebanon to ensure that Hezbollah’s presence in the area is heard in the area. The Lebanese army has said it cannot deploy until Israeli forces withdraw.
The Israeli military blamed HEZBOLLAH for inciting Sunday’s protests.
It said in a statement that its troops deployed warning shots to “remove threats in a number of areas where suspects have been identified.” It added that a number of suspects were detained near Israeli forces and were questioned.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said in a statement addressing the people of Southern Lebanon that “The sovereign and territorial integrity are non-negotiable at the highest levels to guarantee your rights and dignity.”
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He urges them to “exercise self-control and trust and confidence in the Lebanese armed forces.” The Lebanese Army, in a separate statement, said it was locked down in some towns in the border area and called on residents to follow military instructions to ensure their safety.
Parliamentary program Nabih Berri, whose amal movement party is allied and who served as the Militant negotiator of the Bloodfire “is a clear and urgent call for the international community to act immediately and force Israel to withdraw from occupied Lebanese territories. “
An Arabic-language spokesman for the Israeli military, Avichay Adraee, posted on X that Hezbollah “had sent” to heat the situation to heat the situation to heat the situation to heat the situation and status in the status in Lebanon and the Arab world. “
He called on Sunday morning for residents of the border area not to try to return to their villages.
UN SPECIAL Coordinator for Lebanon Jenine Hennis-plasschaert and the head of the FORA of the FORA peace, which Lázaro called as Lebanon to comply with its obligation under the Ceasefire agreement.
“The fact is that the timelines compiled in the concept of November are not fulfilled,” said the statement. “As tragically seen this morning, conditions are not yet in place for the safe return of citizens to their villages along the blue line.”
Unifil said that further violence risks undermining the fragile security situation in the area and “prospects for stability that are in the formation of hostilities in Lebanon.”
It called for the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces, the removal of unauthorized weapons and possessions of the Laaie army in all of South Lebanon and ensure the safe and dignified return of displaced civilians on both sides of the Blue Line.
An AP team was taken over at a university base near Mays Al-Jabal, after the Israeli army set up road blocks on Saturday while they were on a patrol at a patrol at. The journalists reported of Guns and woods Sunday morning from the base, and peaces said that dozens had gathered in the neighborhood.
In the village of Aita Al Shaab, families walk across flat concrete structures in search of remnants of the houses they left behind. No Israeli troops were present.
“These are our homes,” said Hussein Bajouk, one of the returning residents. “However much they destroy, we will rebuild.”
Bajouk added that he was convinced that former Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs in September, is indeed still alive.
‘I don’t know how much we will wait, another month or two months… but the Sayyed will come out and speak,’ he said with a HONOPIAL for Nasrallah.
On the other side of the border in the Kibbutz of Manara, Orna Weinberg surveyed the devastation of the recent conflict on her neighbors and the Lebanese villages on the other side of the border. The sound of gunfire sporadically echoed in the distance.
“Unfortunately, we have no way to defend our own children without harming their children,” Weinberg, 58, said. “It’s a tragedy on all sides.”
Some 112,000 Lebanese remain displaced, out of more than 1 million who fled the war.
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