7 November 2025
At least one person has been killed and nine injured in a series of Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon, ratcheting up tensions and drawing condemnation from both the Lebanese government and the armed group Hezbollah as a flagrant violation of a one-year-old ceasefire.
The Israeli military said that it targeted alleged Hezbollah military installations on Thursday, accusing the group of refusing to disarm in accordance with an agreement reached last year. Israel has carried out near-daily strikes despite the truce, and Hezbollah has said that it is committed to the ceasefire agreement but will not disarm so long as Israel continues to routinely attack Lebanese territory.
“What Israel committed today in southern Lebanon constitutes a full-fledged crime under international humanitarian law, which criminalises the targeting, terrorising, and forced displacement of civilians,” Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said in a statement.
“Nearly a year has passed since the ceasefire took effect, and during that period Israel has spared no effort in showing its rejection of any negotiated settlement between the two countries,” he added.
The barrage on Thursday came soon after a separate Israeli raid targeted southern Lebanon’s Tyre district.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that a Lebanese man was killed and eight others wounded in the town of Toura, where Israeli warplanes struck residential areas. Another man was additionally injured in attacks on Tayr Debba, also in the Tyre District, according to NNA.
“These strikes have been happening near daily for a year now, since that ceasefire came into force,” Al Jazeera correspondent Zeina Khodr reported from Beirut.
“But today it is being seen as an escalation, especially since it’s coming just hours after Hezbollah released an open letter to the country’s leadership and to the Lebanese people. These strikes are being seen as a message from Israel to Hezbollah.”
An Israeli warplane was also reported to fly at a low altitude over Beirut’s southern suburbs, an Israeli practice seen as a form of intimidation.
Source: Aljazeera
