{"id":49224,"date":"2024-12-03T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/lebanon-ceasefire-israeli-and-hezbollah-strikes-test-truce-limits\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:50:00","slug":"lebanon-ceasefire-israeli-and-hezbollah-strikes-test-truce-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=49224","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon ceasefire: Israeli and Hezbollah strikes test truce limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hezbollah said its mortar attack \u2013 the first operation which it had announced since the ceasefire came into effect last Wednesday \u2013 was a \u201cwarning\u201d in response to repeated violations by Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It launched the missiles after Israel fired artillery shells and conducted at least four air strikes that killed two people, Lebanese media reported: a person on a motorbike and a member of the Lebanese security forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement Hezbollah this was a defensive move \u201cgiven that appeals to the relevant authorities to stop these (Israeli) violations have proven futile,\u201d an apparent reference to an international committee meant to monitor the truce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThis is an affirmation that the party remains strong and ready for any developments,\u201d says Kassem Kassir, a Lebanese political writer specialising in Islamist movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe key lies in activating the work of the international committee, ensuring the deployment of the Lebanese army, the withdrawal [of Israeli forces] from occupied Lebanese territories, and halting Israeli violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paula Yaacoubian, an independent member of Lebanon\u2019s parliament, said Hezbollah probably fired the missiles to send a message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI think it can be just to tell Israel \u2018we\u2019re still here, and we can still fire\u2019, so that Israel stops [its attacks],\u201d she told the BBC. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming embarrassing to Hezbollah to get all these violations and not even respond with anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c98ly11k9rwo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah said its mortar attack \u2013 the first operation which it had announced since the ceasefire&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[646,1300,295,1949,2916,656,1666,2155],"class_list":["post-49224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ceasefire","tag-hezbollah","tag-israeli","tag-lebanon","tag-limits","tag-strikes","tag-test","tag-truce"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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