GENEVA (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have killed dozens of civilians in Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect late last year, including a number of women and children, the United Nations said Tuesday.
The UN rights office reported that the Zionist regime’s military operations had killed and injured civilians in Lebanon in the four months since the fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah resistance movement on November 27.
“According to our initial review, at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the ceasefire came into effect,” rights office spokesman Thameen al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.
“Among the victims are 14 women and 9 children,” he said, urging that “the violence must stop immediately.”
The delicate truce between Israel and Hezbollah came after more than a year of Zionist aggression, including two months of war when Israel also sent in ground troops.
But months after the agreed end to fighting, Kheetan warned that people in Lebanon “remain gripped by fear, and over 92,000 are still displaced from their homes.”
The rights office noted that Israeli strikes on Lebanese territory had hit civilian infrastructure since the ceasefire, including residential buildings, medical facilities, roads and at least one cafe.
The southern suburbs of Beirut were also hit in early April for the first time since the ceasefire took effect, in two different incidents, Kheetan said, adding that the area targeted was near two schools.
“A strike on a residential building in the early morning of April 1 killed two civilians and caused significant damage to neighboring buildings,” he said.
Two days later, “Israeli airstrikes hit a newly established medical center run by the Islamic Health Society in Naqoura in southern Lebanon, completely destroying the center and damaging two ambulances,” he said.
He added that “multiple Israeli airstrikes on several towns in the south of Lebanon reportedly killed at least six people” between April 4 and 8.
The Zionist regime had also faced attacks since the truce took effect, Kheetan said.