{"id":589991,"date":"2026-04-21T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589991"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:50:00","slug":"israel-says-hezbollah-fired-rockets-breaching-lebanon-ceasefire-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589991","title":{"rendered":"Israel Says Hezbollah Fired Rockets, Breaching Lebanon Ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Israel Says Hezbollah Fired Rockets, Breaching Lebanon Ceasefire<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Just as the Iran ceasefire seems on the brink of collapsing (though unilaterally extended late in the day Tuesday by Trump), so does the Lebanon one as well, as on Tuesday Israel accused Hezbollah of firing a new rocket volley at its IDF forces, effectively breaking the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces said Hezbollah targeted its troops in southern Lebanon, seeing in this a <strong>breaching of the fragile ceasefire<\/strong> ahead of a further round of US-mediated talks between the Israeli and Lebanese governments.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hezbf.jpg?itok=-sQFx7Eb\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hezbf.jpg?itok=-sQFx7Eb\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"5fb9363b-f3e3-4fa8-81c3-eafd149ad33a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/hezbf.jpg?itok=-sQFx7Eb\" width=\"500\" \/><figcaption><em>Illustrative prior war image: Getty<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>However, Hezbollah&#8217;s stated stance is that it has the <strong>&#8220;right to resist&#8221; Israeli forces operating inside southern Lebanon<\/strong>, given they are occupying forces.<\/p>\n<p>Starting last Thursday, a\u00a0<strong>10-day ceasefire<\/strong> brokered by Washington took effect, even as\u00a0Israeli forces remain deployed in a strip of Lebanese territory several miles deep along the border.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel calls it a &#8216;buffer zone&#8217; &#8211; but Lebanese sees it as a land grab<\/strong>.\u00a0Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally and leader of the Amal Movement &#8211; which is the other big Shia organization in Lebanon &#8211; has newly stated that if Israel &#8220;maintains its occupation, whether of areas, positions, or by drawing yellow lines, it will smell the scent of resistance every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;If they insist on remaining, they will face resistance, and our history bears witness to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese officials have also charged Israel with trying to erase the Lebanese presence in southern Lebanon in a genocidal act, or &#8216;cultural genocide&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This after Israeli forces have carried out demolitions in southern villages,<strong> targeting what they describe as Hezbollah infrastructure embedded in civilian areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s state-run <em>National News Agency<\/em> reported new detonations in at least eight villages on Tuesday, as well as shelling in some of these locations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\udde7\u26a1\ufe0f\u2013 Al Jazeera: Israel has established a &#8220;yellow line&#8221; in southern Lebanon, a no-go zone targeting anyone who approaches. Similar to measures in Gaza, the move risks further land seizures and systematic demolitions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oeovSFDJ1i\">pic.twitter.com\/oeovSFDJ1i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MonitorX (@MonitorX99800) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonitorX99800\/status\/2045934157050568919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Israeli officials previously referred to their deployment boundary as the &#8220;Yellow Line&#8221; &#8211; which it should be noted is a designation also used in Gaza, where entire local neighborhoods have long ago been permanently wiped out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 04\/21\/2026 &#8211; 18:50<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/hezbf.jpg?itok=-sQFx7Eb\" title=\"Israel Says Hezbollah Fired Rockets, Breaching Lebanon Ceasefire\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Says Hezbollah Fired Rockets, Breaching Lebanon Ceasefire Just as the Iran ceasefire seems on the brink of collapsing (though unilaterally extended late in the day Tuesday by Trump), so does the Lebanon one as well, as on Tuesday Israel accused Hezbollah of firing a new rocket volley at its IDF forces, effectively breaking the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589991\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Israel Says Hezbollah Fired Rockets, Breaching Lebanon Ceasefire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/589977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}