Israel announces attack on Hezbollah arms smuggling base along Syria-Lebanon border

The Israeli military announced on Saturday that Israeli aircraft had conducted a test by attacking a Hezbollah arms-smuggling site along the Syria-Lebanon border. A fragile ceasefire from several days ago Sporadic fires continue.

The military said it had attacked bases used to smuggle arms from Syria to Lebanon after the ceasefire took effect, saying it was a violation of the terms of the agreement. There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities or Hezbollah.

Since the start of the ceasefire on Wednesday, Israeli aircraft have attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon several times, citing ceasefire violations.

Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah solves nothing war in gazawhere fighting is intensifying.

An Israeli car attack in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, killed five people on Saturday, including three employees of food charity World Central Kitchen, said Mounir Alborsh, head of the Palestinian Senior Health Office. The charity could not be reached for comment and has not mentioned the incident on social media.

The Israeli military said it had crashed a vehicle carrying militants involved in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. The report said it was investigating the connection to World Central Kitchen, but the car was not marked and was not used to provide aid to the military, as the charity had done during the war. He said that he had not adjusted the

Witnesses told CBS News that he was killed in a second attack when two rescue workers came to retrieve the body. Among the dead was Azem Abu Daka, who is said to have run one of the charity’s kitchens.

At Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, a woman wears an employee badge with the WCK logo, the word “contractor” and the name of one of the men who reportedly died in the strike. I raised it. Piles of belongings were scattered on the hospital floor, including a burnt-out cell phone, a watch, and stickers with the WCK logo.

This is the second time world central kitchen attacked by Israel. In April, an attack on a convoy killed seven employees, most of them foreigners. The Israeli military said it was a mistake.

a ceasefire between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah; Through the mediation of America and Francecalls for an initial two-month cease-fire, with the insurgents withdrawing north of Lebanon’s Litani River and Israeli forces returning to their side of the border.

Although there were no reports of serious casualties, repeated acts of violence reflected the uneasy nature of the ceasefire that appeared to be holding. Israel has accused Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire agreement, and Lebanon has made similar accusations against Israel in the days since the ceasefire took effect.

Many Lebanese, including some of the 1.2 million people displaced by the conflict, continued to head south to their homes, despite warnings from Israeli and Lebanese forces to stay away from certain areas.

The military said early Saturday that its remaining troops in southern Lebanon were carrying out operations to keep “suspects” away from the area, without giving details, pending a phased withdrawal over 60 days. He said his forces had discovered and confiscated a concealed weapon. Inside the mosque.

Israel has said it reserves the right to attack any perceived violations under the ceasefire.

Hezbollah launched an attack on Israel on October 8, 2023, in solidarity with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and its attack on southern Israel the day before. Israel and Hezbollah continued a low-level cross-border firefight for nearly a year until Israel escalated the fighting with a sophisticated attack that detonated hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah fighters. Ta.

Israeli artillery fire has killed more than 3,760 people in Lebanon during the conflict, many of them civilians, Lebanese health officials say. The fighting killed more than 70 Israelis, more than half of them civilians, as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.

The war in Gaza was sparked by a Hamas attack in October 2023, in which the militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 250 hostages. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli retaliatory attacks, local health officials said, adding that more than half of the dead were women and children, although they do not count civilians and fighters separately. .

Debora Patta contributed to this report.

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