{"id":132757,"date":"2024-12-03T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132757"},"modified":"2024-12-03T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:54:47","slug":"hezbollah-and-israel-trade-fire-further-testing-cease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132757","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah and Israel Trade Fire, Further Testing Cease-Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hezbollah fired at Israeli-controlled territory on Monday for the first time since a cease-fire was reached last week, prompting Israel to launch a wave of airstrikes in Lebanon, as each side blamed the other for violating the tenuous truce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military said two Hezbollah projectiles fell in open areas without causing casualties. They hit a strip of land called Shebaa Farms \u2014 Mount Dov to Israelis \u2014 that was seized by Israel in the 1967 war, but is claimed by both Israel and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Lebanese armed group said its launches had been prompted by \u201crepeated violations of the agreement by the Israeli enemy,\u201d describing it as \u201can initial defensive response that serves as a warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response, the Israeli military said it had bombarded sites \u201cthroughout Lebanon,\u201d including dozens of missile launchers. Israeli airstrikes killed at least 10 people and wounded three others in Lebanon on Monday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the cease-fire agreement was announced last week, the Israeli military has repeatedly bombarded Lebanon in attacks it says target Hezbollah militants breaching the cease-fire. The truce \u2014 mediated by the United States and France \u2014 ended more than a year of fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At least for now, the agreement has mostly held. Neither side appears eager to return to the war, which killed nearly 4,000 people in Lebanon and 100 Israelis, displaced over one million Lebanese and turned Israeli border communities into ghost towns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the emerging tit-for-tat places Israel in a quandary. Israeli officials hope the truce lasts so they can refocus their efforts on the war in Gaza and their regional archenemy, Iran. But they fear Hezbollah will exploit the cease-fire to slowly rebuild its forces near the border with Israel in contravention of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, Israeli politicians urged a forceful response to the Hezbollah attack, calling it a critical moment for Israel to establish deterrence. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident \u201ca severe violation\u201d of the truce even as he suggested that Israel was not abandoning the cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are determined to continue enforcing the cease-fire terms, and respond to any violation by Hezbollah \u2014 both minor and major,\u201d Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under the cease-fire, Israel is meant to cease all \u201coffensive military operations against Lebanese targets\u201d and gradually withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon over the next 60 days. Hezbollah is to retreat north, away from Israel\u2019s borders, allowing the Lebanese military to deploy there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s leaders say they will \u201cenforce\u201d the terms of the deal militarily to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding itself near the border. Tolerating even small infractions, they argue, could embolden the Lebanese armed group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe will respond decisively to Hezbollah\u2019s severe violation of the cease-fire, and will continue to do so. We have plans and targets ready to be carried out and at any given moment,\u201d Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military chief of staff, said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Euan Ward<!-- --> contributed reporting from Beirut, Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/02\/world\/middleeast\/hezbollah-israel-lebanon.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah fired at Israeli-controlled territory on Monday for the first time since a cease-fire was reached last week, prompting Israel to launch a wave of airstrikes in Lebanon, as each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132757\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}