The rockets were fired from Lebanon in Israel for the first time in months of Saturday, pushing the Israeli forces to go back to the southern Lebanon sites after hours, according to which they were linked to the Hezbollah militant group.
At least six people in Lebanon were killed in the Israeli bombing and other injured, according to the declarations of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. The Israeli army said she launched a second cycle of attacks on Saturday evening.
The attacks were the last example of how the renewed Israeli offensive to Gaza was rippling through the Middle East. They also risk further interrupting the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents on both sides of the border that had fled more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The Israeli army claimed to have fallen three rockets from Lebanon without reports of victims. The flight shot was the first missile attack since Israel and Hezbollah accepted a ceased the fire that was mediated by the United States and France at the end of last year.
Hezbollah denied the involvement in the fire of the rocket, which followed the resumption of the offensive of Israel in Gaza this week against the Palestinian ally of the Lebanese group. Those Israeli attacks have already killed more than 600 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health officials, who did not say how many fighters were.
After the assault led by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, who turned on the Gaza war, the allies of the militant group throughout the Middle East began to attack Israel in solidarity. Last year, which intensified in a real war between Israel and Hezbollah, in which Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s leadership and launched an invasion on the ground in the southern Lebanon, a roccan of Hezbollah.
The truce entered into force at the end of November and has largely detained. According to the terms of the ceasefire, the Lebanese government should prevent armed groups such as Hezbollah from attacking Israel from Lebanese territory.
Lebanese leaders seemed eager to leave any new escalation with Israel. The Israeli-Hezbollah war killed about 4,000 people in Lebanon and more than a million people fled their homes, according to the authorities of the country. Tens of thousands were still displaced in mid -March, according to the United Nations.
After the Saturday rocket, Joseph Aou, the Lebanese president, condemned what he called “attempts to drag Lebanon into a cycle of violence”. He invited the accused committee to supervise the ceasefire-compartment the representatives of the United States and France-for preventing any violations that could threaten Lebanon.
The Lebanese army declared on Saturday that he had localized and dismantled the launchers in the south of Lebanon. The national army is a distinct force of Hezbollah, a militia supported by Iran who has long extended enormous political and military influence in Lebanon.
“The military units continue to take the necessary measures to control the situation in the South,” said the Lebanese military.
Israeli officials expressed skepticism that the Lebanese army is up to the task of preventing attacks. And Israel continued to bomb Lebanon despite the truce, claiming that he is repressing the militants who violate the ceasefire.
While the ceased the fire initially stipulated a full Israeli retreat by the end of January, the Israeli forces still control five points within the Lebanese territory. Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said that Israeli troops would remain indefinitely to protect Israeli cities near the Lebanese border.
The truce requires that the security forces of the Lebanese government are the only armed presence in southern Lebanon, but it is not clear to what extent Hezbollah has actually withdrawn his fighters and weapons.
The strikes taken in Gaza this week brought attacks to Israel from at least another Hamas ally.
That ally, the Houthi militia in Yemen – who, like Hamas and Hezbollah, is supported by Iran – resumed launching ballistic missiles to Israel, sending hundreds of thousands of Israelis who fall into fortified bombs. Israel air defense systems intercepted missiles.
The Israeli leaders, including the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said they had launched the renewed attack on Gaza in part to put pressure on Hamas to free more dozens of remaining Israeli and foreigners in the encycling. Hamas claimed that Israel is tearing the agreement of the fire.
Steve Witkoff, the correspondent of the Middle East of the Trump administration, said that Israel and Hamas were “talking” to try to solve the impasse in the negotiations. On Friday he made the observations during an interview extended with the personality of the right -wing media Tucker Carlson.
The United States are now discussing how to demilitarize Hamas as part of a post -war settlement for Gaza, said Mr. Witkoff, adding: “This is the important thing”.
“They have to demilitarize. Then maybe they could remain a little there, right? Being politically involved,” he said. “We cannot have a terrorist organization that Gaza manages.”
Mr. Witkoff said he believed that by resuming the fight against Hamas, Mr. Netanyahu was going “against public opinion” in Israel – that Mr. Witkoff widely said an agreement to free the hostages.
Euan Ward Reports contributed by Beirut, in Lebanon and The cartilage of Sheikh Ahmad From Haifa, Israel.