[craig nigrelli]
BARELY THREE DAYS INTO A 60-DAY CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE IRAN-BACKED MILITANT GROUP HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON — AND BOTH SIDES ARE CLAIMING VIOLATIONS.
ON THURSDAY, ISRAEL CARRYING OUT ITS FIRST AIR STRIKE SINCE THE AGREEMENT WAS REACHED — SAYING IT TARGETED A ROCKET STORAGE FACILITY IN SOUTHERN LEBANON THAT BREACHED THE CEASE-FIRE DEAL.
LEBANESE AUTHORITIES ALSO SAY TWO PEOPLE, WHO WERE TRYING TO RETURN TO SOUTHERN LEBANON, WERE SHOT AND WOUNDED BY ISRAELI FORCES.
LEBANON’S HEALTH MINISTRY SAYS THEY WERE CIVILIANS BUT THE I-D-F CLAIMS THEY WERE SUSPECTED OF VIOLATING TERMS OF THE TRUCE.
THE AGREEMENT — BROKERED BY THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE — INCLUDES AN INITIAL TWO-MONTH CEASEFIRE… DURING WHICH HEZBOLLAH MILITANTS WILL WITHDRAW NORTH OF THE LITANI RIVER AND ISRAELI FORCES ARE TO RETURN TO THEIR SIDE OF THE BORDER.
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