Israel shoots Lebanese man, sends propaganda drone over two Tyre towns
An Israeli drone was hovering Monday over the Tyre district towns of al-Mansouri and Byout al-Siyyad, blaring “provocative statements,” the National News Agency said, in reference to anti-Hezbollah propaganda.
"Hezbollah is trying to violate the truce agreement and the ceasefire resolution through obstructing the Lebanese Army's work, and through this it is jeopardizing Lebanon's security and threatening to open the gates of hell," the drone's recording says.
A Lebanese citizen was later wounded in the foot after Israeli forces opened fire at him in the southern border town of Kfar Kila, NNA said.
According to media reports, an Israeli patrol also made an incursion into the plain of the southern border town of al-Abbasiyeh, apprehending a farmer who was cultivating his land before eventually releasing him.
Israeli drones meanwhile overflew the Eastern Mountain Range and eastern Baalbek towns at low altitudes, reports said.
A November 27 truce agreement ended more than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, including two months of all-out war during which Israel wiped out most of Hezbollah’s senior leadership by airstrikes and sent in ground troops.
Israel continues to carry out regular strikes on Lebanese territory and the two sides regularly accuse each other of violating the truce, which nevertheless has largely held.
Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from Lebanon on Feb. 18 under the agreement. It however kept troops at five locations that it deemed "strategic" in Lebanon's south, near the border.
On Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israeli forces would remain indefinitely in what he called a "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon.
Source: Naharnet
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