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Why is Israel attacking Nabatieh?caret-rightEXPLAINERNews|Israel attacks LebanonWhy has Israel escalated attacks in southern Lebanon despite ceasefire? At least 11 people killed in one day of Israeli attacks despite truce extension brokered by US in June.
Lebanon and Israel have agreed to two truce agreements – June 4 and 26 – mediated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. June 4 ceasefire was contingent on a “complete cessation” of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of its fighters.
The June 26 framework agreement did not specifically call for the withdrawal of the Israeli forces and instead tied it to the disarmament of Hezbollah.
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The agreements came after another truce announced in April had unravelled. Both the ceasefires, opposed by Hezbollah, have not stopped the Israeli military from expanding its control over Lebanese territory and carrying out deadly attacks.
An Israeli escalation came as the Lebanese government is planning to hold another round of talks with Israel next month.
Então, o que está por trás da última escalada israelense, e como estão as negociações.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said at least 11 people, including several children, were killed on Saturday in Israeli strikes in the southern district of Nabatieh.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that seven people were killed and three wounded when Israeli warplanes struck a house on the outskirts of Ansar village, destroying the building.
Four other people were killed in a strike on the village of Deir al-Zahrani.
Reporting from Nabatieh on Saturday, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem said the Israeli attack came, after midnight, killing members of a family and creating more fear for other people who live in this area.
The Israeli army carried out an air strike on the Ali al-Taher ridge in the Nabatieh district near the UNESCO-listed Beaufort Castle.
Imagens verificadas pela Al Jazeera mostraram chamas e fumaça subindo da área entre as colinas de Ali al-Taher e a área de Dabsha, ao som de explosões.
Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s TV channel, said the blasts were a result of Israeli air attacks in the area while the Nabatieh news channel reported that the raids took place near the town of Kfar Reman.
The area has seen increased Israeli army activity in recent days and weeks after a lull following the June truce. Israel said the area has strategic significance and it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.
Explosions have also been reported in Lebanon’s southern towns of Bint Jbeil and Taybeh, according to the NNA.
Israeli drones also targeted the outskirts of the town of al-Mansouri. Artillery shelling was reported in the towns of Sarbin, Barashit, al-Mansouri and Wadi Zibqin.
O exército israelense alegou que os ataques foram realizados em resposta ao que descreveu como uma ação do Hezbollah contra soldados israelenses na crista de Ali al-Taher.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on X that the Israeli military responded by striking the Hezbollah terror headquarters which ordered the attack”.
It added that “only later” did the Israeli military “learn that Hezbollah deliberately put civilians in that military compound”.
Israel has repeatedly targeted civilians in Lebanon and during its genocidal war in Gaza, but it often claims that armed groups operate from civilian areas. These claims have been proved to be wrong on most occasions.
The Israeli military also said it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, whom it described as a senior commander in Hezbollah’s “Badder Unit”, and Hezbollah commander Ali Samir al-Haj Hassan in its strikes in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah has not yet commented on the Israeli claims.
Ziad Abu Rish, professor associado de Estudos do Oriente Médio na Bard College, no estado de Nova York, nos EUA, disse à Al Jazeera que a maioria dos observadores acredita que Netanyahu deseja intensificar os ataques ao Líbano para “demonstrar uma determinação inabalável” para ocupar o sul do país e para “castigar” o Hezbollah e os civis libaneses.
He said Saturday’s attacks follow “a pattern that has been in place since the so-called ceasefire” in which Israel is “allowed by the US” to attack Hezbollah and civilians in Lebanon “without any consequences”.
He noted that Israeli forces have killed more than 4,300 people in Lebanon since March 2 and wounded more than 12,000. About 90,000 houses have been damaged or destroyed while roughly 600,000 people remain displaced.
March 2 was the day the latest Israeli escalation in its war on Lebanon began. It started after Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel in retaliation for United States-Israeli air strikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The professor added that Israel’s actions in Lebanon should also be put in the context of what is happening in Gaza. Israel has killed more than 1,200 people in Gaza since an October “ceasefire”.
O presidente libanês Joseph Aoun criticou os contínuos ataques de Israel ao sul do Líbano, particularmente em Nabatieh e nas áreas circundantes, afirmando que eles violam repetidamente o cessar-fogo alcançado com os EUA e Israel.
Aoun said the attacks constituted “a clear message to the negotiation track” and to US efforts to implement the agreement, and he accused Israel of repeatedly violating international laws protecting civilians.
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned continued Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon and called them a matter of “utmost gravity”. Israel, he said, must “halt” its escalation in the area.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, meanwhile, called the Israeli attacks a “massacre” and said they represented the continuation of a “war aimed at extermination” in southern Lebanon.
A Hezbollah statement on Saturday alleged that the escalation reflected Netanyahu’s desire “to escalate the war in order to bolster his domestic political standing, serve his electoral goals and appease the far-right”.
A general election in Israel is scheduled for October 27.
O Hezbollah também criticou as autoridades libanesas, pedindo que elas buscassem maneiras de interromper os ataques israelenses em vez de buscar negociações diretas.
Randa Slim, the Middle East Program Director at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, told Al Jazeera that Lebanon has backed itself into a corner by agreeing to a badly negotiated deal with Israel.
She added that excluding Hezbollah from the ceasefire negotiations was also a mistake.
Israel is “not going to withdraw and [is saying,] ‘I’m not going to cease fire until Hezbollah is disarmed.’ And Hezbollah is saying, ‘I’m not going to disarm until I can see withdrawal from the Israelis,’” Slim added.
Where do the talks between Lebanon and Israel stand.
Israel e Hezbollah estão em guerra desde 2 de março. Antes disso, Hezbollah havia respeitado os termos de um cessar-fogo de novembro de 2024, apesar de violações israelenses quase diárias.
O cessar-fogo de 2024 visava encerrar uma guerra que começou nas sequelas da guerra genocida de Israel contra Gaza, que começou em outubro de 2023.
As part of a US-brokered June 26 framework deal, Israel agreed to withdraw from large swaths of southern Lebanon they are still occupying after the disarmament of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and the Lebanese army moving in to provide security near Lebanon’s border with Israel.
However, this has not happened yet, and the Lebanese and Israeli governments have since been holding negotiations. The seventh round of talks took place in early August.
Israel continues to occupy nearly one-fifth of Lebanon. The Israeli military has accused Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire.
Doron Spielman, a spokesman for Netanyahu told the AFP news agency that Israel’s attacks on Saturday should “jump-start” the talks, “not do the opposite”.
Separadamente, um porta-voz do Departamento de Estado dos EUA disse à Al Jazeera que o Hezbollah é responsável pela presença israelense no território libanês.
The official described Hezbollah as the main obstacle to Lebanon’s economic recovery and said the “pilot zone” programme, under which Israeli forces withdraw from certain areas and Lebanese soldiers move in, remains the only viable path to peace.
Abu Rish said the ceasefire has been “in name only” and held only from June 19 to 23 when Iran pushed for an end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon as part of its memorandum of understanding with the US.
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Informação baseada em material público de Al Jazeera, reescrito pela redação ULTRA NOTÍCIAS.
