Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Monday claimed an attack on an Israeli position, the first since a ceasefire came into effect on Wednesday, which Israel had violated at least 52 times. Hezbollah said in a statement it had launched two projectiles towards the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms.
The group described the response as “preliminary”, stressing it does not intend to return to the all-out war with Israel, according to comments by a Hezbollah parliamentary source to The New Arab’s Arabic language edition Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
“Hezbollah will not remain silent in the face of ongoing and blatant Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty, including today’s attack on the Lebanese army,” the source said.
“[The group] delayed responding to the violations to avoid acting hastily, allowing the relevant authorities to address the issue,” the source added, saying it was confirmed that the nature of the breaches by Israel had all fallen “outside” the terms of the ceasefire agreement.
That depends on the angle you’re viewing this from. Under the agreement, Hezbollah is not permitted to have infrastructure of weapon storages south of the Litani. Their personnel is not permitted to operate south of the Litani. This means that you could argue that most (?) of these incidents which the New Arab counts as violations were, in fact, an enforment of the ceasefire… Preferably this should be done by the Lebanese army or UN troops but apparently Hezbollah agreed that Israel would be allowed to do it themselves.