Aoun urges extending Gaza truce model to Lebanon
Shafaq News – Beirut (Updated at 19:18)
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Saturday condemned the Israeli airstrikes on al-Msailih area in southern Lebanon, warning that the attacks marked a dangerous escalation following the Gaza ceasefire.
In a statement, Aoun said the strikes once again placed Lebanon’s south “under Israeli fire targeting civilian facilities without justification,” urging the international community to extend to Lebanon the same level of support provided under the Gaza truce.
رئيس الجمهورية العماد جوزاف عون:مرة أخرى يقع جنوب لبنان تحت نار العدوان الإسرائيلي السافر ضد منشآت مدنية. بلا حجة ولا حتى ذريعة. لكنّ خطورة العدوان الأخير أنه يأتي بعد اتفاق وقف الحرب في غزة، وبعد موافقة الطرف الفلسطيني فيها، على ما تضمنه هذا الاتفاق من آلية لاحتواء السلاح…
— Lebanese Presidency (@LBpresidency) October 11, 2025
“The danger of this aggression lies in its timing—after the Gaza ceasefire,” he cautioned, questioning whether “some seek to compensate for Gaza through Lebanon” to sustain what he described as political survival through fire and blood.
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Meanwhile, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called the attack “a blatant aggression against Lebanon, Christians and Muslims alike,” urging all Lebanese to unite in confronting the assault.
The Foreign Ministry condemned the raid as “a new and flagrant violation” of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and the cessation-of-hostilities agreement, warning that the persistence of such attacks undermines the national efforts led by the Lebanese Army to confine weapons to state authorities and maintain security and stability in southern Lebanon.
1-تستنكر وزارة الخارجية والمغتربين بأشدّ العبارات استمرار إسرائيل في اعتداءاتها المتكررة على سيادة لبنان، وآخرها العدوان الذي استهدف منطقة المصيلح – قضاء صيدا، والذي أسفر عن أضرار جسيمة وأدى إلى استشهاد مواطنٍ لبناني وجرح سبعة آخرين.
— mofa lebanon1 (@mofalebanon1) October 11, 2025
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Hezbollah, for its part, described the incident as part of repeated and deliberate targeting of peaceful civilians and economic infrastructure, denouncing what it called “Arab and international silence under full American cover.” The group also called for an “intensified diplomatic and political campaign,” the raising of Lebanon’s voice in Arab and international forums, and the submission of an urgent complaint to the UN Security Council to pressure Israel to stop its attacks.
Earlier today, Israeli warplanes struck near the al-Msailih–Najjariyeh highway, killing a Syrian national and wounding seven others—six Lebanese, including two women, and another Syrian—according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry Emergency Operations Center.
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee claimed on X that the strikes targeted “Hezbollah facilities used to store engineering equipment for rebuilding the group’s infrastructure.”
#عاجل 🔸 جيش الدفاع هاجم الليلة الماضية بنى تحتية تابعة لحزب الله الإرهابي والتي استخدمت لتخزين آليات هندسية مخصصة لاعادة اعمار بنى تحتية ارهابية في جنوب لبنان🔸أغار جيش الدفاع الليلة الماضية على بنى تحتية ارهابية تابعة لحزب الله في جنوب لبنان والتي كانت تستخدم لتخزين آليات…
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) October 11, 2025
The ministry later reported that another person was killed in a separate Israeli airstrike targeting a car in the town of Burj Qalawiyah, also in the south.
Despite the ceasefire reached on November 27, 2024, Israel continues to conduct air and drone strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs, while maintaining positions at five locations inside Lebanese territory.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has recorded at least 103 civilian deaths since the truce began, mostly in residential areas or near UN peacekeeping sites. However, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports the toll has climbed to more than 280 killed and 625 injured.
