Israel accuses Hezbollah of violating ceasefire hours after striking Lebanon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Office accused Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire agreement by attacking soldiers in the security zone.
"The Hezbollah attack seriously injured three of our soldiers. The [Israel Defense Forces] responded by striking the Hezbollah terror headquarters which ordered the attack," Netanyahu's office said.
Netanyahu's office said the IDF only learned after the strikes on the headquarters that "Hezbollah deliberately put civilians in that military compound."
"Hezbollah is willing to do anything, including using its own civilians as human shields, to falsely accuse Israel of deliberately targeting civilians, which the IDF clearly did not," Netanyahu's office said.
In a separate statement released Saturday, the IDF says a Hezbollah battalion commander was killed when it struck the Hezbollah headquarters in the Ansar region of Southern Lebanon.
Ali Samir Al-Haj Hassan, a Hezbollah commander in the Radwan Force unit, was killed alongside "several additional terrorists who were involved in advancing terror attacks against IDF," according to the statement.
The IDF also states Hassan's family were present in the Hezbollah headquarters during the strike and were "harmed."




