Hezbollah claimed that the IDF violated the ceasefire by opening fire with automatic weapons toward a group of civilians near Nabatieh at around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. The accusation follows an earlier incident in which the IDF acknowledged machine-gun fire killed two civilians gathering bodies in the same area. The IDF has not yet responded to this specific claim.
Hezbollah has formally accused the IDF of violating the ceasefire, claiming Israeli soldiers opened fire with automatic weapons toward a group of civilians near Nabatieh at around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday — an escalation beyond the earlier accusation of machine-gun fire. The claim lands amid a day of dueling accounts: as The Zioneer reported at 13:05, the IDF acknowledged that machine-gun fire had killed two civilians gathering bodies in the same area; by 16:16, the military confirmed a separate strike in which it hit four Hezbollah operatives approaching troops on a bulldozer and motorcycle. Hezbollah's new accusation of direct fire at civilians appears to mark a separate, third incident today.
Earlier Tuesday at 13:05, The Zioneer published the IDF's acknowledgment that its forces had opened machine-gun fire at a crowd recovering bodies in Nabatieh, killing two civilians — a version that both confirmed Hezbollah's initial warning of a 'blatant violation' and offered the military's counter-framing that it had targeted gunmen violating the truce. At 16:16, the military provided a further account of a second strike in Nabatieh, describing warning shots before engaging the same-day threat. The thread has thus evolved from an unconfirmed Lebanese report of two killed in debris clearing (version 1) to an IDF-acknowledged incident with competing characterizations (version 2 and 3) and now to a fresh Hezbollah claim of a distinct violation.
As The Zioneer has reported throughout this week, both sides have traded ceasefire-violation accusations since Friday, when the IDF declared Hezbollah had breached the truce and struck over 80 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. The Israeli Foreign Ministry formally classified Hezbollah drone launches as violations, per a Jun 11 report. The military has not yet responded to Tuesday's specific Hezbollah claim of fire at civilians.
It remains unverified whether the group of civilians posed any threat to the forces, and whether the IDF will characterize this incident differently from the earlier machine-gun fire that killed the two body-gatherers.
4 developments
- DevelopingIDF accuses Hezbollah of another 'blatant' ceasefire violation
- ConfirmedIDF confirms second strike of the day in Nabatieh, hits Hezbollah operatives approaching troops
- StrongIDF spokesman: Hezbollah violated the ceasefire
- ConfirmedIDF reportedly strikes Nabatieh area after Hezbollah fire at Israeli forces
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