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Lebanese PM says Israel has bombed Lebanon nearly 3,500 times during ceasefire
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Israel has carried out nearly 3,500 air strikes on Lebanon and hundreds of controlled explosions since the US announced a ceasefire for the country on April 16, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says.
The US-brokered ceasefire came into effect just after midnight on April 17, with Israeli troops still positioned deep inside southern Lebanon. While it has largely halted air strikes on Beirut and its suburbs, it failed to halt fighting in southern Lebanon between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
In comments published by his office on X after a cabinet meeting, Salam says that from April 17 to June 7, Israel carried out 3,491 air strikes, 407 controlled demolitions and six “razing” operations, or demolitions — which have left some entire villages in the southernmost strip of Lebanon entirely flattened.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Israel says it is acting against the ongoing threat posed by Hezbollah in south Lebanon, and argues that the terms of the ceasefire allow it to do so.
Salam says Lebanon is striving to uphold the ceasefire but that the latest escalation between Iran and Israel has caused additional waves of displacement, straining Lebanon’s ability to accommodate fleeing families.
The Times of Israel Community.