While a strike of Israeli drone on a car left a dead on Monday in Sidon in the largest city in the south of the country, Lebanon called the guarantors of the truce to Sommer Israel to remove its troops from the southern country On February 18, a new deadline given after the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah at the end of November.
Coming into force on November 27, the agreement negotiated by the United States and France was concluded after two months of open war between Israel and Hezbollah Pro Iranian. “The guarantors of the agreement must assume their responsibility by helping us,” the Lebanese presidency said in a press release. “We are continuing contacts at different levels to push Israel to comply with the agreement, withdraw on the scheduled date and release prisoners,” she added.
Hezbollah chief Naïm Qassem said on Sunday that it was the responsibility of the Lebanese government to push Israel to withdraw his troops by Tuesday.
Israel could still stay in Lebanon
The Israeli army led a terrestrial offensive in southern Lebanon in the fall in the fall of northern Israel, and troops remained there after the end of hostilities. Under the terms of the agreement, the Israeli army was supposed to have completed its withdrawal from southern Lebanon on January 26, where only the Lebanese army and the UN peacekeepers had to be deployed. Hezbollah had to dismantle its infrastructure in the south and withdraw north of the Litani river.
But the deadline was postponed for the first time on February 18. “Regarding the withdrawal period, it seems that there is a tacit, even explicit, of the United States to extend this period,” said Karim Bitar, a specialist in the Middle East at Sciences-Po Paris to AFP By adding: “The most likely scenario is therefore that Israel maintains its control over four or five hills which dominate the majority of the villages in southern Lebanon”.
For the time being, the Israeli army is carrying out operations to energize buildings on the border daily and continues to carry out strikes across the country, including three in the East on Sunday, according to the Official Anima agency.