Israel bombs four Syria-Lebanon border crossings; kills 2 in south Lebanon

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun blasts Israel’s ‘policy of systematic aggression’ that straight targets civilians successful Lebanon.

Israel said it attacked 4 crossing points connected the Syria-Lebanon border, saying they were utilized by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, pursuing earlier attacks connected confederate Lebanon that killed astatine slightest 2 radical and injured astir 20.

The latest Israeli unit connected Wednesday comes contempt a US-brokered ceasefire, which ended much than a twelvemonth of warring betwixt Israel and Hezbollah fighters successful Lebanon successful 2024 and which Israel has repeatedly violated.

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“Once again, Israel is pursuing a argumentation of systematic aggression by carrying retired aerial strikes connected inhabited Lebanese villages, successful a unsafe escalation that straight targets civilians,” Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said successful a connection precocious connected Wednesday.

“This repeated assertive behaviour reaffirms Israel’s refusal to abide by its obligations arising from the cessation of hostilities agreement,” President Aoun said.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health said astatine slightest 19 radical were wounded successful Israeli aerial strikes connected the confederate Lebanese municipality of Qanarit.

People fly arsenic fume rises aft an Israeli aerial onslaught successful the colony of Qanarit, southbound Lebanon, connected Wednesday [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

The state-run National News Agency said Israeli warplanes bombed buildings successful respective southbound Lebanon villages and towns, including al-Kharayeb, al-Ansar, Qanarit, Kfour and Jarjouh, aft the Israeli service issued warnings that it would transportation retired attacks connected targets wrong the country.

Earlier successful the day, the Health Ministry said an Israeli onslaught connected a conveyance successful the municipality of Zahrani, successful the Sidon district, killed 1 person. The ministry besides said that an Israeli onslaught targeting a conveyance successful the municipality of Bazuriyeh successful the Tyre territory killed different person.

The AFP quality bureau said its analogous reported seeing a charred car connected a main roadworthy successful Sidon with debris strewn crossed the country and exigency workers successful attendance. A lensman with the bureau was besides somewhat wounded on with 2 different journalists who were moving adjacent the tract of a dense Israeli onslaught successful Qanarit, wherever 19 radical were injured.

The Israeli subject said connected societal media that it targeted 4 borderline crossings connected the Syria-Lebanon borderline utilized for “weapons transfer” and that it had besides “eliminated” a “key Hezbollah weapons smuggler” successful the Sidon country of confederate Lebanon.

A Lebanese service connection decried the Israeli attacks that targeted “civilian buildings and homes” successful a “blatant usurpation of Lebanon’s sovereignty” and the ceasefire deal.

The Lebanese subject besides said specified attacks “hinder the army’s efforts” to implicit the disarmament program for Hezbollah, which was portion of the ceasefire agreement.

Hezbollah has rejected calls to surrender its weapons amid the ongoing Israeli attacks, which person killed much than 350 radical successful Lebanon contempt the ceasefire signed successful November 2024, according to a tally of casualties from AFP.