Israeli Airstrikes on Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon Result in Injuries

Israeli Air Force planes launched a series of airstrikes targeting sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon yesterday evening, in a new escalation amid ongoing tensions between the two sides for weeks.

The Israeli army explained that the strikes targeted military infrastructure, weapon storage, and a rocket launch platform belonging to Hezbollah, and considered that they represent a violation of the existing security understandings between Lebanon and Israel.

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health confirmed, through the Public Health Emergency Operations Center, that the airstrikes resulted in seven people being injured, in a final toll announced this evening.

One of the airstrikes targeted the vicinity of the town of Ansar in the south of the country, while another strike hit the town of Al-Hosh in the Tyre area, resulting in four people being injured with varying degrees of wounds.

These developments come amid ongoing military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, particularly concentrated in southern Lebanon, where civilian towns and places believed to contain Hezbollah sites have been subjected to repeated strikes for weeks.

And although a ceasefire agreement has been in effect in Lebanon since November 2024, mediated by the United States, clashes and airstrikes have not stopped.

The agreement came after a military conflict that lasted more than a year, turning into an open confrontation in September 2024.

The agreement stipulates Hezbollah's withdrawal from areas south of the Litani River (about 30 kilometers from the Israeli border), and dismantling its military infrastructure there, in exchange for enhancing the deployment of the Lebanese army and the United Nations Interim Force "UNIFIL".

The agreement also demands the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the areas they advanced into during the war, but Israel still retains five strategic heights, which Beirut demands their withdrawal from.

For its part, Israel reiterates that it will continue its military strikes to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding its military capabilities, threatening to eliminate "any threat" to its security, unless the Lebanese authorities take clear measures to disarm the party, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.

The new escalation reflects the fragility of the declared truce and raises fears of the situation slipping into a large-scale confrontation, amid the absence of a comprehensive political solution to end the chronic tension on the Lebanese-Israeli border.