The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had struck sites on the Syrian-Lebanese border used according to it by Lebanese Hezbollah to transport weapons.
The Air Force carried out a raid on “military infrastructure sites near crossing points between Syria and Lebanon used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons from Syria to Lebanon”after the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement” on Wednesday, according to a military press release.
That “poses a de facto threat to the State of Israel”added the same source.
In Lebanon, where its forces are present in the south of the country, the Israeli army claimed to have “located and confiscated weapons that were hidden in a mosque by Hezbollah terrorists” in this region, and having led “operations to remove suspects”.
The official Lebanese agency ANI reported for its part “a drone strike on a car near the town of Majdal Zoun”in southern Lebanon. She also reported shelling on Khiam, a border village, where automatic weapons fire was heard.
The agency also reported “intermittent artillery fire” on the outskirts of the village of Chaqra, also in southern Lebanon.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect on Wednesday, after more than a year of cross-border hostilities and two months of open war between the Israeli army and the Lebanese armed movement supported by Iran.
Sponsored by the United States and France, the ceasefire agreement provides for the withdrawal within 60 days of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah, for its part, must retreat to the north of the Litani River, approximately 30 kilometers from the Israeli-Lebanese border, and dismantle its military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
Israel said it reserved “complete freedom of military action” in Lebanon, “if Hezbollah violates the agreement and tries to rearm”.