As the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran continued, Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month.
By Catholics for Catholics
As the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran lingered, Israel carried out its most intense strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month.
This happened even as the Iran-aligned group paused attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon under a two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire, according to a story by Newsmax.
According to the Newsmax story, consecutive blasts shook Beirut, sending smoke rising across the capital, as Israel’s military said it had launched the largest coordinated strike of the war. The strikes targeted more than 100 Hezbollah command centers and military sites in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon.
Israel’s strikes killed dozens and wounded hundreds, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The destruction in Beirut left people bloodied and injured, as some folks abandoned cars in traffic and headed to the nearest hospital, Reuters witnesses said.
The ceasefire of the six-week-old U.S.-Israeli war against Iran did not apply to Lebanon, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As for the operations against Hezbollah he added that they would go on.
PRAY FOR PEACE: And just like that we're back to war as we cannot restrain Israel from destroying Lebanon. Lebanon is the most Christian Country in the Middle East with over 30% of the population identifying as Christians. https://t.co/O5mTnZIKQH
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“The battle in Lebanon continues, and the ceasefire does not include Lebanon,” Israel’s military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a statement. Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel had inflicted the biggest concentrated blow to Hezbollah since a September 2024 operation that caused thousands of the group’s pagers to explode.
Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, said the situation in Lebanon, a former French protectorate, remained grave and called for Lebanon to be included in the deal.
Since March 2, Israel has issued evacuation orders covering around 15% of Lebanese territory, mostly in the south and in suburbs south of Beirut. More than 1.2 million people have been displaced, the authorities say.
“Hopefully a ceasefire will be reached,” said Ahmed Harm, a 54-year-old man displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs. “Lebanon can’t take it anymore. The country is collapsing economically, and everything is collapsing.”
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