Israel-Hezbollah truce in jeopardy after rocket barrage kills 6

• Israel's service launched airstrikes connected respective locations successful Lebanon connected Saturday successful retaliation for a rocket attack.
• The strikes came a time aft Israel said it would transportation retired operations successful Gaza "with expanding intensity" until Hamas frees the 59 hostages it holds, 24 of whom are believed to beryllium alive.
• Tens of thousands of Israelis connected Saturday again protested the government’s nonaccomplishment to negociate a hostage woody and its determination to occurrence the caput of the country’s Shin Bet interior information service.

Israel launched airstrikes connected respective locations successful Lebanon connected Saturday successful retaliation for a rocket attack, sidesplitting six radical successful the heaviest speech of occurrence since its ceasefire with the militant radical Hezbollah began astir 4 months ago.

The speech sparked interest astir whether the ceasefire would hold, days aft Israel relaunched its warfare with different Iran-backed militant group, Hamas, successful Gaza. In a statement, Hezbollah denied being liable for the attack, saying it was committed to the truce.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau said it instructed the service to respond forcefully against dozens of targets successful Lebanon, wherever the Iran-backed Hezbollah is based. Israel's service said six rockets were fired toward Metula, a municipality on the borderline with Lebanon. Three crossed into Israel and were intercepted.

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The service said it "cannot corroborate the individuality of the enactment that fired the rockets." It said it struck Hezbollah bid centers and dozens of rocket launchers.

An Israeli onslaught connected the confederate Lebanese colony of Touline killed 5 people, including a child, and wounded 10 others, including 2 children, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

Another Israeli onslaught Saturday nighttime deed a store successful the coastal metropolis of Tyre, the NNA reported, with 1 idiosyncratic killed and 7 wounded. It was the archetypal onslaught connected the metropolis since the ceasefire took effect Nov. 27. And a onslaught connected Hawsh al-Sayed Ali colony on the borderline with Syria wounded 5 people, according to the NNA.

Residents cheque the tract of Saturday's Israeli airstrike successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Tyre, Lebanon, connected March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

In a statement, Lebanon’s premier minister, Nawaf Salam, asked the country's subject to instrumentality each indispensable measures successful the south, but said the state does not privation to instrumentality to war.

Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and missiles into Israel the time aft Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught retired of Gaza ignited the warfare there. The Israel-Hezbollah struggle boiled implicit into all-out warfare successful September arsenic Israel carried retired waves of airstrikes and killed astir of the militant group’s elder leaders. The warring killed implicit 4,000 radical successful Lebanon and displaced astir 60,000 Israelis.

Israeli forces were expected to retreat from each Lebanese territory by precocious January nether the ceasefire deal. The deadline was extended to Feb. 18, but Israel has remained successful 5 locations successful Lebanon crossed from communities successful bluish Israel. Meanwhile, Israel has carried retired dozens of airstrikes connected confederate and eastbound Lebanon, saying it attacked Hezbollah, portion continuing drone attacks that person killed respective members of the militant group.

Lebanon has appealed to the U.N. to unit Israel to afloat withdraw. The United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon said it was alarmed astatine the imaginable escalation of unit and urged each parties to debar jeopardizing the advancement made.

Israeli airstrikes lb Gaza

The strikes came a time aft Israel said it would transportation retired operations successful Gaza "with expanding intensity" until Hamas frees the 59 hostages it holds — 24 of whom are believed to beryllium alive.

Israeli strikes connected Friday nighttime killed astatine slightest 9 people, including 3 children, successful a location successful Gaza City, according to Al-Ahli Hospital, which received the bodies.

"Rubble and solid started falling connected us," said Sameh al-Mashharawi, who mislaid his member successful the attack. He mourned with his young nephew Samir al-Mashharawi, whose parents and siblings were killed. The 12-year-old, his caput and wrists bandaged, sat successful the backmost of a motortruck and cried.

Israel's subject said Friday that its forces were readying caller assaults into 3 neighborhoods westbound of Gaza City and issued warnings connected societal media for Palestinians to evacuate the areas.

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"Hamas, unfortunately, understands subject pressure," Netanyahu's overseas argumentation advisor Ophir Falk told The Associated Press.

Around 600 Palestinians person been killed since Israel relaunched the warfare connected Tuesday. Israel had already chopped disconnected the proviso of food, fuel, and humanitarian assistance to Gaza’s astir 2 cardinal Palestinians, aiming to unit Hamas implicit ceasefire negotiations.

The planetary assemblage has condemned the resumed attacks.

The archetypal 2023 onslaught by Hamas-led militants killed immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages. Most of the hostages person been freed successful ceasefire agreements oregon different deals. Israeli forces person rescued 8 surviving hostages and recovered the bodies of dozens more.

Israel’s retaliatory violative has killed much than 49,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. It does not accidental however galore were militants but says much than fractional of those killed were women and children. Israel says it has killed astir 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.

Uproar implicit Shin Bet chief

Tens of thousands of Israelis connected Saturday again protested the government’s nonaccomplishment to negociate a hostage woody and its determination to occurrence the caput of the country’s Shin Bet interior information service. They called for caller elections.

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The Supreme Court has ordered a impermanent halt to Ronen Bar’s dismissal until an entreaty is heard. Israel’s lawyer wide has ruled that the Cabinet has nary ineligible ground to disregard him.

Netanyahu said successful a connection precocious Saturday that Bar "will not stay the caput of the Shin Bet" and "Israel volition stay a antiauthoritarian state." He argued that his nonaccomplishment of assurance successful Bar agelong predates the Shin Bet probe into illicit ties betwixt respective of his aides and Qatar.

Opposition person Yair Lapid called for a taxation rebellion and wide onslaught if the authorities defies the tribunal ruling, saying: "If this happens, the full state needs to grind to a halt."