Israel Accuses Hezbollah Of Ceasefire Violation, Strikes Beirut

Israel has struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs, killing at least one person and injuring four others, after accusing Hezbollah of launching three projectiles towards northern Israel in what it described as a blatant ceasefire violation.

The Israeli military said Hezbollah’s projectiles violated the ceasefire, coming hours after Israel issued forced displacement orders for residents of more than two dozen towns in southern Lebanon.

Israel said it was responding to Hezbollah missiles and drones.

The Israeli military carried out the strike on Beirut after three Hezbollah drones hit northern Israel earlier in the day.

The strike targeted an apartment that the Israel Defense Forces said served as a Hezbollah command centre. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that at least one person was killed and four were injured in the strike.

A senior Iranian parliament member reacted sharply to the strike, with Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for the parliament’s foreign policy and national security committee, writing on social media: “If you seek an agreement or understanding, you must discipline the Zionist regime. If this rabid dog is not controlled, it will bite your leg before the ink is dry on the agreement.”

Tehran has said that any Israeli attack on Beirut would violate its ceasefire with the U.S. and could trigger an Iranian response.

Israel continues to attack Lebanon despite Iran saying the country is included in a proposed memorandum of understanding with the U.S. to end the war in the region.

The escalation follows Hezbollah’s rejection last week of a ceasefire proposal agreed between Israel and Lebanon after U.S.-led negotiations.

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said the group was “concerned only with a comprehensive cessation of aggression, a ceasefire, and the withdrawal of Israel,” rejecting the proposal as fulfilling “the enemy’s objectives.”

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli military would continue “its fire and activity in the area at this stage” and would “remain in the security zone in Lebanon… without the return of the Lebanese population.”

The latest exchange comes amid a broader pattern of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in recent days.

Hezbollah said it repelled two Israeli ground incursions and carried out 19 attacks targeting Israeli troops in southern Lebanon on Friday and Saturday.