Lebanon PM Salam slams Israel after fresh attacks on southern Lebanon

Israel gave residents an hr to evacuate areas successful confederate Lebanon aft announcing planned attacks connected Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has denounced Israel’s aerial strikes connected 3 towns successful the southbound of the country, arsenic the second again flouted its truce with Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported connected Thursday that the Israeli service carried retired respective strikes connected the densely populated towns of Meiss el-Jabal, Kfar Tebnit and Debbin, which were carried retired conscionable 1 hr aft announcing plans to people Hezbollah infrastructure.

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Salam accused Israel of “intimidation and aggressions” committed successful defiance of past year’s ceasefire and the internationally backed mechanics to show it.

“Lebanon calls connected the planetary community, particularly the countries sponsoring the statement to cease hostile operations, to exert maximum unit connected Israel to instantly halt its aggressions,” said Salam successful a station connected societal media.

France and the United States are the main sponsors of the deal.

Earlier, the Israeli subject had announced the planned attacks connected Hezbollah “military infrastructure” and called connected residents to evacuate buildings marked successful reddish connected an attached map.

Spokesman Avichay Adraee said that the attacks were being carried retired successful effect to Hezbollah’s “prohibited attempts to rebuild its activities successful the region”.

Reporting from Lebanon’s superior Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said the Israeli army’s informing had prompted wide evacuations.

“We saw radical battalion immoderate they could and marque their mode to safer areas,” she said.

The attacks, she said, came “approximately an hour” aft the evacuation order.

Hezbollah weakened

Hezbollah and Israeli forces exchanged near-daily occurrence crossed the Lebanese borderline aft the onset of Israel’s warfare connected Gaza successful October 2023.

Despite a ceasefire brokered successful November 2024, Israel has continued to onslaught confederate Lebanon connected an astir regular basis.

“They people vehicles, motorcycles – they people what they telephone Hezbollah members and assets,” said Al Jazeera’s Khodr.

Under the presumption of the deal, Hezbollah is expected to disarm and determination northbound of the Litani River, portion Israel is expected to retreat afloat from Lebanese territory.

However, it inactive remains, occupying astatine slightest 5 points successful confederate Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Lebanon is under pressure, chiefly from the United States, to disarm Hezbollah by the extremity of the year.

The group’s arms person agelong been a contentious contented successful Lebanon, with attempts to interfere with its subject capabilities starring to internal conflict.

However, Hezbollah has suffered large losses since past year, including the nonaccomplishment of longtime person Hassan Nasrallah, killed by an Israeli onslaught successful the Beirut suburbs astir precisely a twelvemonth ago.

Thursday’s strikes happened conscionable aft Hezbollah marked the one-year day of Israel’s alleged pager attack connected its members, which wounded and killed astatine slightest a twelve radical and near much than 3,000 wounded.

The presumption of the ceasefire agreement, which Salam referred to successful Thursday’s post, were acceptable by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which was adopted astatine the extremity of the 2006 warfare to halt hostilities betwixt Israel and Hezbollah.

Women clasp posters during a march to commemorate the archetypal day of the pager explosions successful Beirut, Lebanon, on  September 17, 2025 [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]