Israel launches a new wave of attacks on Lebanon despite hopes for a ceasefire

The Israeli army launched a new wave of “large-scale attacks” against suspected targets of the Shiite party militia Hezbollah in Lebanon’s capital on Tuesday, following a barrage of bombardments on the city early in the day and into the middle of the night. the apparent progress toward a possible ceasefire agreement. Meanwhile, there is no delay in the Gaza Strip either.

Official sources quoted by the newspaper The times of Israel have indicated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has convened a security cabinet meeting to discuss the ceasefire proposal presented by the United States, which could be approved by the parties on Tuesday.

Lebanon has expressed its desire to implement the treaty United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006 following the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and considering the withdrawal of the party militias to the north of the Litani River, an area where the Lebanese army should then be deployed together with the UN Interim Force for Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Israel unleashed a new invasion of Lebanon on October 1 after several weeks of intense bombing and attacks on the country, including the coordinated explosion of thousands of communications equipment used by the Lebanese group. Lebanon has reported more than 3,700 killings since the outbreak of hostilities on October 8, 2023.

No hope in Gaza

While in Gaza, Civil Defense teams, who are responsible for rescue ambulances, carry the rescue ambulances about 35 days without operation in the northern cities of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and JabaliaWhere more than 2,300 Palestinians were slaughtered during the 52 days of bombing and military sieges, according to their own records, which continue.

Human rights groups come there an attempt to ‘purify’ the north and force the relocation of the civilian population to prepare to occupy that territory, as the government’s far-right parties openly demand. And a ceasefire in Lebanon could be Netanyahu’s “concession” to keep his troops in the Gaza Strip.

That same Tuesday, at least eleven people were killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Al Hurriya Schoollocated in the southern part of North Gaza City, and which had already been attacked at the end of September. Gazan civil defense teams have described the extraction of new victims from the rubble as complex due to the presence of an unexploded explosive device in the area. On September 21, the same Al Hurriya school was targeted by an Israeli bombardment that killed 44 people, including children, according to local sources.

In addition, the Civil Protection has denounced that all its vehicles cannot operate in the Gaza capital due to Israel’s refusal to allow the entry of fuel, which they describe as “death sentence for the civilians whose homes are being bombed.

The authorities in the Gaza Strip have spoken out about this 44 250 the death toll from the Israeli attacks. In any case, the Gaza authorities have stated this repeatedly 10,000 people They are listed as missing. On the other hand, he pointed it out in a second statement 1,410 families have been “completely eliminated” from October 7, 2023.

For example, he emphasized that the Israeli troops have committed themselves 7160 massacres from the start of the offensive, before adding that 3,463 Palestinian families have one survivor after the Israeli attacks.