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Israeli jets strike Beirut’s southern suburbs for the third time since ceasefire

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Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS

Sunday’s strike follows two earlier attacks on the capital’s southern suburbs, the first taking place on March 28, when Israel also issued a warning, and the second on April 1, when an unannounced strike killed four people, including a Hezbollah official.

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, Sheikh Naim Kassem, has recently warned that if Israel’s attacks on Lebanon continued and if Lebanon’s government doesn’t act to stop them, the group would eventually resort to other alternatives.

Kassem also said that Hezbollah’s fighters won’t disarm as long as Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon and the Israeli air force regularly violates Lebanese airspace.

Under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that ended the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli forces were supposed to withdraw from all Lebanese territory by late January, while Hezbollah had to end its armed presence south of the Litani River along the border with Israel.

Earlier on Sunday, a drone strike killed a man in the southern Lebanese village of Halta, according to the Health Ministry.

In a post on X that included footage of the strike, the Israeli military said that it had targeted a Hezbollah member, “where he was working to rebuild Hezbollah’s terrorist capabilities in the area.”

SOURCE :-  NEW INDIAN EXPRESS