Lebanon is entitled to take all measures necessary to counter Israeli aggression and safeguard the country’s people and national sovereignty, the Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc reaffirmed on Thursday.

In its session on Thursday, the bloc held the international community legally and politically responsible for its failure to condemn the Israeli attack on a founding UN member state, which bears full responsibility for safeguarding its security and its right to reclaim occupied territory.

The Resistance MPs stressed that Lebanon has not witnessed any Israeli commitment to halting violations for an entire year, noting what they described as “suspicious cover and constant support from the American sponsor, who has reneged on its guarantees.”

The bloc added that a full year has passed while the Lebanese people continue to face aggression, the country’s sovereignty remains violated, and the Resistance has exercised restraint in line with what the national interest requires during this period.

According to the bloc, the Israeli occupation, “aided by a chorus of opportunistic appeasers," seeks to justify attacks on Lebanon and its people by portraying them, without any legal or logical basis, as pre‑emptive measures against an assumed or potential response that might disrupt the occupation’s stability and challenge its ongoing violations of Lebanese sovereignty.

Strike on Southern Suburb, continuation of aggression

Addressing the latest Israeli strike on Beirut’s Southern Suburb, which killed senior commander Haitham al-Tabatabai and four of his comrades, the bloc said the assassination inside a residential building was not a pre‑emptive act but rather a continuation of aggression, a deliberate crime, a threat to the security of all Lebanese, and an assault on the country’s overall stability.

In parallel, the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc said the occupation continues to manufacture flimsy pretexts to violate the ceasefire in Gaza.

It argued that “what is known as the international community, along with its affiliated institutions and organizations, stands either as a complicit false witness or, at best, as a passive observer unwilling to take serious, decisive action to curb the Zionist crimes backed by the United States and Western powers.”

The bloc concluded that such positions place all these actors “either as partners in the crime or as holders of a credibility that has already collapsed.”

'Israel' sustains its violations of the ceasefire agreement

"Israel" has violated the ceasefire agreement on a near-daily basis since it was reached on November 27, 2024, launching widespread airstrikes across the entirety of Lebanon, as well as land incursions and occupying five points beyond the blue line in the south.

A correspondent for Al Mayadeen in southern Lebanon reported on Thursday hearing an explosion east of the town of Houla, coinciding with the flight of an Israeli Quadcopter drone over the area.

Earlier in the day, the correspondent noted that an Israeli aircraft had dropped a bomb on the town of Addiseh, while warplanes carried out airstrikes on Al-Qatrani and the Jabbour Heights.

The Israeli airstrikes also targeted the Mahmoudiyah and Jarmuq areas, with attacks extending to the outskirts of Loueizeh and Nab’ al-Tasah, carried out in successive waves.

Additionally, the correspondent reported that Israeli forces have reinforced fortifications at a newly established position inside Lebanese territory and opened fire toward a local farmer. The forces stationed at the site on Talat al-Hamamous also fired toward the Serda area, south of Khiam.

A Lebanese civilian was killed on November 23 in a drone strike carried out by the Israeli occupation in the town of Ayta al-Shaab, located in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent.

On the same day, Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health's emergency operations center reported the official toll of the surprise Israeli attack on Beirut's Southern Suburb, revealing that the assault on a residential area left five people martyred and 28 others wounded.

Israeli occupation forces escalated their aggression against Lebanon on November 22, launching a series of airstrikes across southern and eastern regions of the country, in ongoing violation of the ceasefire agreement.

Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that several strikes targeted highland areas surrounding the towns of Tarayya and Shmestar in the Bekaa region, located in eastern Lebanon.

In southern Lebanon, our correspondent added that Israeli warplanes carried out raids on the Jabal al-Rafee area, the outskirts of Sojod town, and the al-Naqra valley near Kfar Hamam.