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Israeli planes struck Hezbollah weapons smuggling sites along the Syria-Lebanon border, the Israeli military said Saturday, testing a fragile and days-old ceasefire which has experienced continued sporadic shooting.
The army said it struck sites that had been used to smuggle weapons from Syria to Lebanon after the ceasefire took effect, which the army said was a violation of its terms. There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities or Hezbollah.
Israeli planes have repeatedly struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, citing ceasefire violations, since the truce began on Wednesday.
Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah unanswered the war in Gazawhere the fighting rages.
On Saturday, an Israeli strike on a car killed five people, including three employees of the food charity World Central Kitchen, in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, according to Muneer Alboursh, a senior Palestinian health official. The charity could not be reached for comment and made no mention of the incident on its social media channels.
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The Israeli military said it hit a vehicle carrying an activist involved in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. It said it was investigating reported links to World Central Kitchen, but said the car was not registered and had not coordinated the delivery of aid with the army as charities did during the war.
An eyewitness told CBS News that when two rescue workers came to collect the bodies, they were killed in a second strike. Among the dead was Azem Abu Daqa, who is believed to have run one of the association’s kitchens.
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At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, a woman held up an employee badge bearing the WCK logo, the word “contractor” and the name of one of the men believed to have been killed in the strike. A pile of items – burned phones, a watch and stickers with the WCK logo – lay on the hospital floor.
This is the second time Central cuisine of the world was hit in an Israeli strike. In April, a strike on a convoy killed seven personnel, most of them foreigners. The Israeli military said it was a mistake.
The truce between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, negotiated by the United States and Francecalls for an initial two-month ceasefire during which militants must retreat north of Lebanon’s Litani River and Israeli forces return to their side of the border.
The repeated outbreaks of violence – with no serious casualties reported – reflected the tenuous nature of the ceasefire that otherwise appeared to be holding. While Israel accused Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire, Lebanon also accused Israel of the same thing in the days after it came into force.
Many Lebanese, among the 1.2 million displaced by the conflict, were heading south towards their homesdespite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese military to stay away from certain areas.
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The army said earlier Saturday that its forces, which remain in southern Lebanon until a gradual withdrawal over a period of 60 days, had operated to remove “suspects” in the region, without further details, and said troops located and seized weapons found hidden. in a mosque.
Israel says it reserves the right under the ceasefire to strike at any perceived violations.
Hezbollah began attacking 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 maintained a low-level conflict with cross-border fire for almost a year, until Israel intensified its fight against a sophisticated attack that blew up hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah fighters.
More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon during the conflict, including many civilians, according to Lebanese health authorities. The fighting has killed more than 70 people in Israel – more than half of whom were civilians – as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.
The war in Gaza was sparked by the Hamas attack in October 2023, when militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 hostages. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 44,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who do not distinguish between civilians and fighters in their tally but say more than half of the dead were women and men. children.
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