Israel’s military on Saturday launched large-scale airstrikes against southern Lebanon after it said it intercepted three rockets coming from the neighboring country.
The Israeli strikes targeted “dozens” of rocket launchers controlled by the Hezbollah militant group, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in statement.
The strikes are endangering a fragile truce struck last November to put an end to 14 months of intense fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
Hezbollah has denied being responsible for the rocket strikes on Israel and reiterated its “commitment to the truce agreement,” Lebanese daily L’Orient-Le-Jour reported.
Two people were killed and eight other injured by the Israeli strikes, according to the Lebanese news agency.
In a statement, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called for restraint and warned against “a new war which would be devastating for Lebanon.”
The escalation comes just days after Israel resumed extensive strikes on Gaza, and amid a growing judicial and political crisis in Israel following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dismiss the head of the Israeli domestic intelligence service.
Israel’s military said on Friday evening that it had killed the head of Hamas’ military intelligence in southern Gaza.
The post Israel-Lebanon truce in danger after fresh attacks appeared first on Politico.
