At least twelve people, including two children, have lost their lives this Monday after a new series of bombings carried out by the Israeli Army against the town of Kfar Reman, in southern Lebanon, despite the ceasefire in effect.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health has updated the toll after several injured individuals died as a result of a first attack by Israeli forces against a three-story residential building in the city. This bombing left eleven dead, including two minors, and eight injured, among them three children and a paramedic from the Islamic Health Authority --linked to the Hezbollah militia-party.
Additionally, a drone attack against a vehicle in Kfar Reman has resulted in the death of a paramedic from the Islamic Association and injuries to two other people, according to the Ministry. However, the state agency NNA has raised the number of paramedics from this organization who have died to two, identified as Ali Shahrur and Hadi Farhat.
Hours earlier, the Israeli Army had ordered the evacuation of certain areas of Deir al Zahrani, also in the south of the country, due to the imminence of bombings against a facility supposedly belonging to the Lebanese Shiite group.
"We urge all residents who are in the building marked in red on the attached map and in the neighboring buildings to evacuate: you are near a facility belonging to the terrorist organization Hezbollah against which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will act," announced the Arabic spokesperson for the Israeli Army, Ella Waweya.
Ensuring that she does not wish to "cause any harm" to the residents of that area to be evacuated, Waweya defended this operation claiming that it responds to the "flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement by the terrorist organization Hezbollah, following the launch of a drone loaded with explosives against the IDF."
"Hezbollah's terrorist activity forces the Army to act decisively against it," she stated in a message on social media, warning the population called to evacuate that they must leave the marked area "immediately" and move away from it "at least 300 meters."
Subsequently, the IDF communicated that two of its soldiers have been "lightly" injured in a confrontation with Hezbollah in the vicinity of the Beaufort castle, in southern Lebanon, where they would have shot down a militia fighter.
"Today (Monday), during a search operation carried out by a patrol of the Golani Brigade in the Beaufort area (...) a Hezbollah terrorist who was inside a building opened fire on the forces. The forces responded to the fire immediately and shot down the terrorist," they stated in a statement released on their social media.
According to the latest count from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 27 people have died and 69 have been injured in the airstrikes carried out by Israel against Lebanese territory over the past three days.
Among the victims are Ali Shbeib and Mohamed Baryawi, a journalist and cameraman from the Al Manar network, affiliated with Hezbollah, who were injured in a bombing carried out on Sunday in Nabatiyé.
Thus, according to Lebanese authorities, 4,362 people have died and 12,378 have been injured since the beginning of the Israeli Army's offensive last March in the south of the country, in the context of attacks that continue despite the ceasefire in effect.
Lebanon and Israel reached a preliminary agreement on June 26, with mediation from the United States, which laid the groundwork for a permanent ceasefire and contemplated the restoration of Lebanese sovereignty in the south, as well as the disarmament of Hezbollah, a point that the group has categorically rejected.
Since then, Israel has invoked security reasons and Hezbollah's refusal to accept the agreement to maintain its military operations in southern Lebanon, in the context of the new invasion triggered after the group launched projectiles against Israeli territory in response to the joint offensive of February 28 by the United States and Israel against Iran.