Israel launches new wave of airstrikes against south Lebanon amid repeated truce violations
Iran Press TV
Thursday, 13 November 2025 5:02 PM
Israeli forces have carried new wave of aerial raids and bombed multiple residential neighborhoods across southern Lebanon as the regime continues to violate the ceasefire agreement with the Arab country.
Lebanon's el-Nashra and al-Manar news networks reported on Thursday that the Israeli warplanes bombed Lebanese villages in Bint Jbeil and struck the outskirts of the town of Tayr Falsayh in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon.
Lebanon's National News Agency said that Israeli jets also struck the al-Khanouk area of the Aitaroun municipality in the Nabatieh district with air-to-surface missiles.
The attacks reportedly caused casualties and inflicted heavy damage on civilian infrastructure in the region.
Later in the day, an Israeli drone targeted a Renault Rapid vehicle in the Nabatiyeh district town of Toul, wounding at least one person.
The strike took place in a densely populated area while students were leaving school.
Local media reports quoting local sources said that an Israeli warplane dropped a sonic bomb over the Naqoura beach in southern Lebanon.
Witnesses said that Israeli soldiers also fired volleys of machine guns towards the outskirts of the Kfar Shouba municipality.
Israeli artillery also shelled on Wednesday night the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal.
Tensions have been mounting in southern Lebanon for weeks, with the Israeli army intensifying near-daily air raids inside Lebanese territory.
Despite a ceasefire reached in November last year, Israel has kept up its near-daily attacks on south and east Lebanon and is occupying five hills it deems strategic in the south.
The Israeli army has killed more than 4,000 people and injured nearly 17,000 in its attacks on Lebanon, which began in October 2023 and turned into a full-scale aggression in September 2024.
Israel and the Hezbollah resistance movement reached a ceasefire agreement that took effect on November 27, 2024. Under the deal, Tel Aviv was required to withdraw fully from the Lebanese territory—but has kept forces stationed at five sites, in clear violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and the terms of last November's agreement.
Since the implementation of the ceasefire, Israel has violated the agreement multiple times through repeated assaults on the Lebanese territory.
Taking advantage of US President Donald Trump's re-entry to the White House and with the assistance of pro-Israeli US envoys to Lebanon, Morgan Ortagus and Tom Barrack, Israel has been able to impose its re-interpretation of the agreement and push Beirut into the position of having to bow to the new conditions.
Lebanese authorities have warned that the Israeli regime's violations of the ceasefire threaten national stability.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says Israel's continued hostilities and its failure to implement the November 2024 agreement are preventing Lebanon's army from completing its deployment along the southern borders.
The Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, in a speech on Tuesday, reiterated that the US and Israel's calls for the disarmament of the resistance group were designed to weaken Lebanon and leave it exposed to external aggression.
He described the calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah as "a pretext" for launching an aggression on Lebanon
The Hezbollah chief stressed that the US and Israeli threats and pressure "will not change our stance; we will defend our land and dignity, and we will not surrender."
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