The Israeli Air Force conducted a large wave of airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in five villages across southern Lebanon on Thursday evening, after issuing evacuation warnings to civilians in the area.
The strikes were on a much broader scale than the hundreds of previous, smaller strikes Israel has carried out to prevent Hezbollah’s violations of the ceasefire terms.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that one person was killed and nine others were wounded in the Israeli strikes on Thursday.
The escalation followed numerous reports in recent days that Israel was growing increasingly concerned about the pace of the terror group’s rearmament.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun sharply condemned the strikes, calling them a “fully-fledged crime not only according to the provisions of international humanitarian law… but also a heinous political crime.”
Aoun claimed that every time Lebanon expresses readiness to negotiate with Israel, it “intensifies its aggression against Lebanese sovereignty, boasts of its contempt for Security Council Resolution 1701, and persists in violating its commitments under the understanding to cease hostile actions.”
“Israel has spared no effort to demonstrate its rejection of any negotiated settlement between the two countries… Your message has been received,” he said.
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