Israeli occupation forces will maintain their presence in southern Lebanon.
On Thursday, Israel attacked southern Lebanon, thereby violating the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which establishes the “immediate and permanent” end of military operations on all fronts.
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“One person was killed and another was seriously injured in an attack carried out by an enemy drone targeting a vehicle at the Kafr Tibnit roundabout in Arnoun,” Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Two other people were injured after an Israeli drone dropped a bomb on a house in the town of Yahoun, a municipality near Bint Jbeil in the southern province of Nabatieh.
From March 2 through June 17, Israeli occupation forces have killed 3,884 people and wounded 11,856 in Lebanon, according to data from the Health Ministry.
The Israeli attacks came just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian digitally signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which was reached after months of negotiations mediated by Pakistan and Qatar.
A US-Iran peace agreement may have been signed, but the guns have not fallen silent in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese state media reported Israeli airstrikes, artillery fire and phosphorus shelling near Nabatieh on Wednesday, with explosions from interceptor missiles also heard… pic.twitter.com/5KTN15kICB
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Israel Refuses to Leave Southern Lebanon
On Thursday, the Zionist army announced that it will remain in the territory it occupies in southern Lebanon despite the signing of the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, which provides for “guaranteeing Lebanon’s territorial integrity.”
Israel justified its decision by arguing that the presence of occupation forces in the “security zone” is necessary “to eliminate threats to its soldiers and establish an effective defense for northern communities.”
Since March 2, the “security zone” has included occupied Lebanese territory extending up to about 10 kilometers from the border with Israel. However, Zionist authorities also announced that their forces will strike any “threats” they identify “beyond” that perimeter.
On Thursday, Israel released a map of the occupied Lebanese territory defining an area in red that runs along Lebanon’s southern border and extends beyond the Litani River, the geographic line that Israeli troops initially reached and north of which they ordered the Lebanese population to relocate. The northernmost point is at the Ali al Taher ridge, very close to the Lebanese city of Nabatieh.
On Tucker Carlson’s show, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to the #UnitedStates Secretary of State from 2002 to 2005, commented that what the U.S. is doing to #Lebanon is inconceivable#MiddleEast #teleSUREnglish pic.twitter.com/0bFgrxTS6j
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