[News] Israeli forces advance, blow up homes in south Lebanon

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 Israeli forces advance, blow up homes in south Lebanon

A Hezbollah MP vowed this week that the resistance will confront Israeli
troops ‘with all possible means’ if they do not withdraw by the end of the
ceasefire period

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

JAN 21, 2025 -
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The Israeli army continues to advance <https://t.me/thecradlemedia/28610>
in southern Lebanon and destroy infrastructure less than a week before the
end of a 60-day ceasefire implementation period, which Tel Aviv is
continuously violating.

“The enemy targeted a house on the outskirts of Bint Jbeil with a direct
shell, after a number of tanks penetrated Maroun al-Ras towards the
outskirts of the city,” Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on 21
January.

Israeli forces also pushed into Wadi al-Suluki in the Marjayoun District
and carried out “massive” detonations of homes and buildings, according to
NNA. Violent explosions also rocked the Marj neighborhood in Houla the
previous night as a result of detonations carried out by the Israeli army.

Israel has laid waste to tens of thousands of housing units across the
south, and stepped up its destruction after the start of the ceasefire
period on 27 November in violation of the agreement.

The deal, based on UN Resolution 1701, is meant to see the Lebanese army
dismantle Hezbollah’s presence and infrastructure south of the Litani
River, while Israeli forces are required to withdraw from the country. This
is supposed to take place within the 60-period that began in late November
and is set to end in six days.

Reports have conflicted, with some stating Israel is not planning
<https://thecradle.co/articles/exclusive-israel-seeks-to-occupy-south-lebanon-past-60-day-truce-period>
to fully withdraw by the end of the 60 days, and others saying that
Washington has guaranteed <https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28427> a full
pullout by the end of the implementation period.

Tel Aviv has accused Hezbollah of failing to abide by the agreement and
remaining south of the Litani. Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened
earlier this month that “there will be no agreement” if the “condition is
not met.”

Israel has violated the agreement more than 1,000 times
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28292> since it took effect.

“We in Hezbollah are waiting for the date of January 26, which is the day
on which the ceasefire requires a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese
territory,” said Hezbollah MP Ali Fayyad
<https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6--%D8%A3%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8-%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D9%86--%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84--%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%AA>on
Monday.

“If the Israeli occupation does not abide by this, it will mean the
collapse of the executive procedures paper, the destruction of the
mechanism it included, and the undermining of the international sponsorship
role of this agreement,” he added.

Fayyad went on to say that a failure by Israel to withdraw “puts all
Lebanese, without exception, before a new stage, and what it imposes in
terms of new calculations, the title of which is confronting the Israeli
occupation with all possible means and methods to expel it from our land.”

Israeli army Chief of Staff
<https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-readies-major-west-bank-ops-resumption-of-gaza-lebanon-wars>
Herzi Halevi has ordered “the formulation of plans for the continuation of
the fighting … in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon," according to a statement by
a military spokesman on Monday.
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