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• Lebanon's PM counts 3,491 Israeli air raids since the April 17 cessation took hold.
• Hezbollah, accused of breaching, never signed the deal and openly rejected it.
• The UN force meant to verify compliance is being wound down by year's end.

BEIRUT, LB (TDR) — Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says Israel has carried out 3,491 air raids, 407 bombings, and six village-flattening operations between April 17 and June 7 — a period both governments have called a ceasefire.

'What we've seen in the last 24 hours is how closely linked Lebanon is to the wider ceasefire.'

Sky's @sallylockwood reports from Dubai on how military action by Hezbollah and Israel triggered renewed strikes between Iran and Israel.

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The big picture: Salam delivered the tally after a cabinet meeting, framing every strike as a violation. Israel frames the same strikes as enforcement against a militia that won't stand down. The dispute is not over what happened — the numbers are largely agreed — but over who broke a truce that one of the central armed parties never accepted.

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• Salam's office reported 3,526 people killed and 10,733 wounded over the period.
• The cessation followed the US-Iran ceasefire that took effect April 17, after Hezbollah reopened fire on March 2.

Why it matters: More than one million people — a fifth of Lebanon's population — have been displaced, and the country says it has hit its limit.

• Lebanon has reached maximum absorption capacity in Beirut, Sidon, and other host cities, Salam said.
• The UN human rights office found Israel's evacuation orders cover roughly 14 percent of Lebanese territory and may amount to forced displacement.
• UN agencies are sheltering more than 215,000 displaced people across over 500 sites.

Driving the news: A Washington-brokered deal announced June 4 was supposed to formalize the truce. It hinged on Hezbollah halting fire and pulling back from the south Litani sector.

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• Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected the proposal the same day, calling it a deal that serves the enemy's aims.
• Israeli jets struck Beirut's Dahiyeh suburb June 7, the first capital strike since the renewed truce, after rocket fire Israel attributed to Hezbollah.

What they're saying: Each side reads the same ceasefire text as licensing the opposite conduct.

• Naim Qassem, Hezbollah leader — "We are concerned only with a comprehensive cessation of aggression, a ceasefire, and the withdrawal of Israel."
• An Israeli military spokesperson warned southern residents the IDF would continue to target Hezbollah facilities in their villages.
• Israel's defense minister said displaced residents will not return south of the Litani until northern Israel is secure.

Yes, but: Every party to this is standing on a claim that doesn't survive contact with the others.

• Hezbollah calls the strikes aggression against a ceasefire — yet it rejected the deal it accuses Israel of violating and kept firing.
• Israel calls 3,491 strikes enforcement, but there is no neutral body authorized to confirm which targets were actual violations versus civilian sites.
• Lebanon's own army is taking casualties from a truce its government cannot enforce on the militia operating inside its borders.

Between the lines: The structural problem is that the only referees are leaving the field. The US and France brokered compliance monitoring, but the UN peacekeeping force that physically verifies the south Litani line has a mandate ending December 31, 2026. Without an independent monitor, "violation" and "enforcement" become whatever the stronger party says — and a ceasefire becomes a label, not a constraint.

The bottom line: When no neutral party can adjudicate a breach, both sides claim the law is on their side, and the people counting the dead are the same ones who can't stop the strikes.

What's next:

• Watch whether the June 4 framework collapses or holds after the Dahiyeh strike escalation.
• Track UNIFIL's drawdown timeline and whether any body replaces its monitoring role.
• Monitor displacement figures as Beirut and Sidon pass stated capacity.

If neither side will accept an outside referee, what stops "ceasefire" from meaning whatever the side with more firepower decides it means?

Sources

This report was compiled using reporting from CNN, Time, NPR, The Jerusalem Post, OHCHR, UN News, FDD, and Yahoo News

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