Israel takes advantage of the ceasefire with Iran to launch its largest attack against Lebanon

While the US and Iran have agreed on a two-week ceasefire and the reopening of Hormuz, Israel It does not stop its attacks.

The army launched this Wednesday the ‘major’ attack on Lebanon so far in the war, reaching more than a hundred Hezbollah targets in just a strip of ten minutes.

According to Israeli military spokesman Nadav Shoshani, this large-scale attack occurred today after weeks of “meticulous preparation”.

“It’s something we’ve been working on, planning meticulously for weeks. It takes time to generate more than 100 precise targets and to develop the capacity to conduct dozens of airstrikes on different locations simultaneously,” he said.

The Air Force used some 50 fighters that dropped 160 bombs against targets in the central area of ​​Beirut, Bekaa and southern Lebanon. The attacks targeted command posts, missile launch systems, intelligence infrastructure and other military facilities.

Many of them were in civilian areas. The Israel Defense Forces have accused the Shiite group’s fighters of “using civilians as human shields.”

For its part, the Government of Lebanon has reported “hundreds of martyrs and wounded” due to the latest wave of Israeli bombings.

He Lebanese health ministerRakan Nasereldín, has stated that there are “hundreds” of victims from these attacksAs reported by the Lebanese state news agency, NNAwhile the population has been asked not to go to medical centers except for urgent reasons to “give priority to rescue work.”

“The priority at this stage is complete emergency work and save the lives of those under the rubbleas well as treating all the injured and distributing them among hospitals, depending on the severity of their condition,” he noted.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on his X account that while the agreement between Iran and the United States is being concluded, Israel “continues to expand its attacks, targeting densely populated residential neighborhoods.”

“We call on all friends from Lebanon to help us to stop these attacks by all available means,” he added.

“Your turn will come”

He Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katzthreatened to kill Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem after what he called Israel’s largest attack on the Shiite group.

Hezbollah members, Katz said, “were attacked in a surprise attack against its headquarters throughout Lebanon, in the largest concentrated blow that Hezbollah has suffered since ‘operation beeper’,” he said about the explosion of the pagers that caused dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries in the neighboring country.

“Congratulations to the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) for the impeccable execution and to the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for leading the decision and insisting on the separation of the spheres of action between Iran and Lebanon“added Katz in reference to the exclusion of the Israeli offensive in Lebanon from the peace agreement between the United States and Iran.

And he issued a threat to the leader of Hezbollah: “We warned Naim Qassem that Hezbollah would pay a very high price for attacking Israel on behalf of Iran, and the Naim Qassem will also get his turn“.

“Great achievements”

He Israeli army assured this Wednesday, the first of a ceasefire, that he had reached “great achievements” in the preceding 40 days of war with Iran, but said they will continue bombing Lebanon, where “the threat persists.”

“We have achieved great achievements in Iran. I think it is a little premature to draw conclusions in the first hours of the ceasefire, and there is also a layer of uncertainty about what the future will be like outside of military factors,” military spokesman Nadav Shoshani said in a video conference with the media.

He added that in Lebanon The Army has also “achieved good results,” but insisted that the “threat to the Israeli civilian population persists”, so Israel will not accept a simultaneous ceasefire.

For its part, andThe Israeli Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamirnoted in a statement in Hebrew that Israel will continue attacking the Shiite militia Hezbollah “without rest” until “all opportunities to do so have been exhausted.”

During that work, he declared that Israel will continue to fight Hezbollah and will take advantage of “every operational opportunity.”

“We will not jeopardize the safety of the residents of northern Israel. We will continue to attack with determination“said the head of the Army.

Hezbollah began attacking Israel on March 2three days after the Hebrew State launched the coordinated attacks against Iran that started the war, in retaliation for the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Israel then launched a bombing campaign against the entire country. and a ground operation in the south, although it had been attacking Lebanon almost daily despite the ceasefire that had been in force since November 2024.

More than 1,500 people have died in Lebanese territory and another 4,800 have been injured in Israel’s attacks, not including this latest wave, according to the Lebanese authorities’ count.