Despite ceasefire agreement, clashes between Israel and Hezbollah still take place in southern Lebanon

The truce was hanging by a thread. On paper, the weapons should be deposited in Lebanon. This is the promise of a ceasefire already achieved on Friday June 20 between Israel and Hezbollah, after a murderous day on the ground, in this agreement contained in that between the United States and Iran to end the war in the Middle East.

Despite a drop in the intensity of clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in previous days, the latter violently resumed with Israeli strikes on Saturday. Even if no bombing took place this week in Beirut, the capital, the Jewish state continues to strike southern Lebanon. In response, the central command of the Iranian army announced on Saturday that it had once again closed the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Artillery strikes, rocket fire intercepted in the sky by the Israeli anti-missile system. These are the only noises that the few residents still present in Nabatieh, in the south, heard during the night from Friday to Saturday. Lebanese media report “fights concentrated around a very strategic hill”a few kilometers from the city, on which the Israelis are trying to advance.

At the Nabatiyeh hospital, when the ceasefire was announced Friday evening, wounded people covered in dust from explosions continued to arrive. Barely 17 minutes after the theoretical effective time of the truce on site, air strikes were heard again.

The city is deserted. Its inhabitants, displaced for more than three months elsewhere in Lebanon, had begun to return to see their homes, their businesses. They had to evacuate again. Israeli strikes on Friday left 47 dead and around a hundred injured in barely 24 hours. No definitive assessment was given on Saturday morning, since emergency services only go out at dawn because, according to them, Israeli drones target ambulances when they go out at night.