The Israeli military carried out another round of airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday, exactly a year into the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli aircraft launched "a series of raids on Al-Mahmoudiya and Al-Jarmak", just north of the Litani River.
The November 27, 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of hostilities between the two sides.
But Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to stop the group from rearming.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said his country was "in a one-sided war of attrition that is escalating".
The Israeli military said it "struck and dismantled Hezbollah terror infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon", in a statement after Thursday's strikes.
It also said it had hit "several launch sites where Hezbollah weapons were stored", "military posts" used by the group, and a storage facility containing weapons.
Israel's military "will continue to operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel", it said.
The military said that ever since the ceasefire, it has been trying to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding by dismantling infrastructure, thwarting its intelligence operations and diminishing its military capabilities.
It said it had carried out around 1,200 "targeted activities", and "eliminated more than 370 terrorists" from Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian groups during the ceasefire.
According to the ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah was to pull its forces north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border with Israel, and have its military infrastructure there dismantled.
Under a government-approved plan, the Lebanese army is to dismantle Hezbollah military infrastructure south of the river by the end of the year, before tackling the rest of the country.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun "rejected the Israeli claims", his office said Thursday, adding that the Lebanese army was "preventing armed displays, confiscating ammunition, inspecting tunnels, among other things".
The Lebanese premier slammed Hezbollah's claims that its weapons deter Israeli aggression.
“Hezbollah says its weapons are deterring an aggression. Deterrence means preventing the enemy from carrying out an aggression, but it (Israel) is attacking and the weapons are not deterring it,” Salam said in comments run by NNA.
"These weapons did not protect either Hezbollah's leaders or the Lebanese people and their property," Salam added.
