The killing of 15 people in Lebanon was reported that the Israeli forces remain after the deadline for the withdrawal

Israeli forces At least 15 people were killed and more than 80 others were injured in southern Lebanon on Sunday after the demonstrators demanded to withdraw in line with the ceasefire agreement. The ceasefire agreement with HezbollahThe Lebanese authorities said.

The Ministry of Health said in a statement that among the dead were two women and soldiers in the Lebanese army.

The demonstrators, some of whom were carrying the flags of Hezbollah, tried to enter several villages in protest against Israel’s failure to withdraw from southern Lebanon by the 60 -day deadline stipulated in the ceasefire agreement that stopped the war between Israel and Hezbollah in late November .

Israel said on Friday that it would keep its forces in the south until after the deadline on Sunday because the Lebanese army has not been fully deployed yet to ensure that Hezbollah does not return its presence in the region. Meanwhile, the US -backed Lebanese army said that it could not deploy until the Israeli forces withdraw, and accused Israel of delaying its withdrawal.

The Israeli army accused Hezbollah of stirring up the protests on Sunday.

She said in a statement that its forces launched warning shots “to remove threats in a number of areas that have been recognized by the approach of the suspects.” He added that a number of suspects were arrested near the Israeli forces and being interrogated.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said in a statement addressed to the people of southern Lebanon, today, Sunday, that “the sovereignty of Lebanon and its land unity are not negotiable, and I am following this issue at the highest levels to ensure your rights and dignity.”

He urged them to “control and trust in the Lebanese army.” The Lebanese army said in a separate statement that it was accompanying civilians to some towns in the border area and called on residents to follow military instructions to ensure their safety.

The Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, whose party is allied with the Amal movement with Hezbollah and who worked as a interlocutor between the armed group and the United States during the ceasefire negotiations, said that the bloodshed on Sunday “is a clear and urgent call to the international community to move immediately and forcing” Israel withdraws from the lands Occupied Lebanese.

The Israeli army spokesman, Avichai Adraei, published on the X website that Hezbollah sent “rioters” and that “he is trying to fuel the situation to cover up his situation and his situation in Lebanon and the Arab world.”

Residents of the border area warned against trying to return to their villages.

He said: “The Israeli Defense Army does not intend to target you, and therefore at this stage, it is forbidden for you to return to your homes from this southern line until further notice. Anyone who moves south of this line endangers himself.”

The United Nations Special Coordinator in Lebanon, Jenin Hennis Blaskart, and head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL, Lieutenant -General Aroldo Lazaro, in a joint statement, Israel and Lebanon to comply with their obligations under the ceasefire agreement.

“The truth is that the time schedules stipulated in the November understanding were not fulfilled,” the statement said. “And as we have tragicly seen this morning, the conditions are not yet prepared for the safe return of citizens to their villages along the blue line.”

UNIFIL said that more violence threatens to undermine the fragile security situation in the region and “the prospects for stability allowed by stopping hostilities and forming a government in Lebanon.”

He called for the complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces, the removal of weapons and unauthorized origins south of the Litani River, the return of the Lebanese army in all southern Lebanon, and ensuring a safe and dignified return of displaced civilians on both sides of the Blue River. line.

The AP team was crossed throughout the night at UNIFIL base near Mays Al -Jabal after the Israeli army set up roadblocks on Saturday while joining a patrol of the peacekeeping forces. The journalists reported that they heard gunshots and resounding sounds on Sunday morning from Al Qaeda, and the peacekeepers said that dozens of demonstrators had gathered nearby.

In the village of Aita Al -Shaab, families toured over the flat concrete buildings in search of the remains of the houses they left behind. There were no Israeli forces present.

“These are our homes,” said Hussein Bajouk, one of the returning residents. “Whatever they are destroyed, we will rebuild.”

Bajuk added that he was convinced that former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli raid on the southern suburb of Beirut last September, was still already alive.

“I do not know how much we will wait, for another month or two months … but the master will go out and speak,” he said, using the honor of God’s victory.

On the other side of the border, in the lighthouse Kibbutz, Orna Winberg wiped the destruction left by the recent conflict over its neighbors and the Lebanese villages on the other side of the border. The shooting sound heard intermittently from a distance.

“Unfortunately, we have no way to defend our children without damaging their children,” said Weinberg, 58. “It is a tragedy for all parties.”

About 112,000 displaced Lebanese are still among more than a million who fled their homes during the war.