Video: Israel violates Lebanon ceasefire 100+ times in less than a week

What ceasefire?

Israel has violated its supposed ceasefire with Lebanon more than 100 times in less than a week since it took effect last Wednesday. Even CNN, which generally takes a pro-Israel position, covered the breaches last night:

Skwawkbox warned last week that the ceasefire was almost certainly a political sham that meant Israel would continue attacking. Most UK ‘mainstream’ media are either ignoring Israel’s violations or using headlines that present them as purely a response to violations by Lebanese militia, or at best an ‘exchange of fire’:

Even Al Jazeera, generally a solid source on events in Lebanon and Gaza, is now doing contortions to try to claim that the ceasefire still ‘holding’ despite constant violations:

Israel, meanwhile, has called the single reported Lebanese retaliatory strike a ‘serious violation’ and said it will ‘respond with force’. With few exceptions, the ‘mainstream’ in the UK are not pointing out the obvious asymmetries. However, the article under the Sky News headline of yesterday, shown in the screen capture above, at least gives more representative detail about the sequence of events:

Hezbollah said it fired projectiles as a “defensive and warning response” after what it called “repeated violations” of the ceasefire deal by Israel. The attack was Hezbollah’s first since the ceasefire was enacted last week…

At least four people have been killed and others left wounded by Israeli strikes on Lebanon in recent days, including two people today.

Before the Hezbollah fire, Israel carried out at least four airstrikes and an artillery barrage on different parts of southern Lebanon, including a drone strike that killed a person on a motorcycle, according to Lebanese state media.

UK PM Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy have yet to mention, let alone condemn, Israel’s attacks in violation of the ceasefire.

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