Israel has been heavily bombing Beirut today, flattening dozens of buildings and killing hundreds of people justifying the fears of many that it would try to sabotage the ceasefire with Iran. In an initial statement on the ceasefire last night, Pakistan said that the 15-day ceasefire included Lebanon, but the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, unilaterally, it did not. The IDF therefore continued its Gaza-like campaign to destroy southern Lebanon.
Israel hit Hezbollah with the biggest blow it has suffered since the beeper/walkie-talkie operation in September 2024, Netanyahu claimed later in the day. “We attacked 100 targets in 10 minutes, in places that Hezbollah was certain were immune.”
An unnamed Iranian official told PressTV that the entire world is currently witnessing the regime destabilize the already tenuous truce reached earlier in the day. According to the official, Israel is raising the cost of the agreement for the United States by breaching the ceasefire while simultaneously carrying out aggression against Lebanon and attacking Iran. The highly placed official called on mediating countries to intervene immediately, stating that the time has come to “put this aggressor regime in its place.”
He further warned that if the ceasefire collapses, “the Zionist regime” will be held solely responsible, vowing that Iran “will punish the aggressor.” The official also cautioned that the current period of ease, which followed the controlled reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, would come to a swift end if the violations continue.
