{"id":29037,"date":"2026-02-07T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=29037"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:10:39","slug":"israeli-air-attacks-on-lebanon-reach-highest-level-since-ceasefire-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=29037","title":{"rendered":"Israeli air attacks on Lebanon reach highest level since ceasefire: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israeli warplanes conducted more than 50 raids on Lebanon last month amid major surge in attacks, says refugee rights NGO.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flames and smoke rise from a building hit in an Israeli air attack in Ain Qana, southern Lebanon on February 2, 2026 [Mohammed Zaatari\/AP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Israel is carrying out a \u201cclear and dangerous\u201d surge in air attacks on Lebanon, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has said, with its warplanes conducting more attacks on its neighbour in January than in any previous month since the ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The humanitarian organisation said on Thursday that Israeli warplanes had carried out at least 50 air raids on Lebanon last month \u2013 about double the number of the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group said the repeated attacks made a mockery of the ceasefire<\/a> agreed between Israel and Lebanon in November 2024, after more than a year of cross-border attacks and a two-month-long Israeli intensification that killed thousands in Lebanon and devastated civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese attacks \u2013 as well as the many ground incursions that continue to happen away from the cameras \u2013 have deemed the ceasefire agreement little more than ink on paper,\u201d said Maureen Philippon, NRC\u2019s country director in Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data, provided to the NRC by security company Atlas Assistance, captures only attacks carried out by manned Israeli warplanes and does not include Israeli drone attacks, which regularly result in deaths in Lebanon, or attacks carried out during Israeli ground incursions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli attacks have continued in recent days. On Monday, Israeli warplanes targeted buildings in two villages in southern Lebanon, Kfar Tebnit and Ain Qana, after issuing evacuation orders to residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s military claimed the buildings were Hezbollah \u201cmilitary infrastructure\u201d and said it was targeting them in response to what it said were the group\u2019s prohibited attempts to rebuild its activities in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun<\/a> accused Israel of committing an environmental crime<\/a> after Israeli aircraft sprayed an unknown substance over southern Lebanese towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The NRC said the ongoing attacks have created a climate of fear and instability for residents and were hampering much-needed reconstruction efforts, in a country still reeling from the effects of the conflict with Israel before the ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attacks have struck targets in dozens of cities and villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, destroying homes and displacing families in an environment where approximately 64,000 people have already been displaced by the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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