Israeli navy automobiles on the Israel-Lebanon border, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israel battle with Iran, on March 2, 2026.
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Hezbollah condemned on Monday (March 2, 2026) the Lebanese authorities’s resolution to ban its navy actions, whereas Israel carried out retaliatory strikes in response to rockets fired by the Iran-backed group.
In a press release, Mohammed Raad, the top of the group’s Parliamentary bloc, condemned Beirut’s “swaggering choices”, saying that “the Lebanese had been anticipating a call rejecting the (Israeli) aggression”.
Banning of Hezbollah’s navy and safety exercise
Lebanon’s authorities on Monday (March 2, 2026) took the unprecedented step of banning Hezbollah’s navy and safety exercise, prompting the Iran-backed group to lash out on the resolution.
Hezbollah is represented in each the federal government and Parliament, and the transfer got here hours after it introduced it had launched rockets and drones in the direction of Israel early on Monday to avenge the killing of Iranian supreme chief Ali Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli assaults.
Israel started bombarding Beirut’s southern suburbs and dozens of villages in south Lebanon, vowing to make the group pay a “heavy worth”.
Israeli assault on Lebanon
The strikes killed no less than 52 individuals and wounded no less than 154, in keeping with the Lebanese authorities.
The Israeli navy later stated it had “accomplished a broad wave of strikes on Hezbollah terrorist organisation targets in southern Lebanon”.
“As a part of the strikes, greater than 70 weapons storage services, launch websites, and missile launchers” had been hit, it stated.
Following an emergency cupboard assembly earlier Monday (March 2, 2026), Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stated: “The Lebanese state declares its absolute and unequivocal rejection of any navy or safety actions launched from Lebanese territory exterior the framework of its official establishments.
“This necessitates the instant prohibition of all of Hezbollah’s safety and navy actions, contemplating them to be exterior the regulation, and obliging it handy over its weapons”.
Mr. Salam had ordered the navy and safety businesses to take “instant measures” to implement the cupboard resolution and forestall “any navy operation or the launching of missiles or drones from Lebanese territory”.
Arrest order
Justice Minister Adel Nassar introduced in a publish on X that the judicial authorities had tasked “safety businesses with instantly arresting those that launched the rockets and their instigators”.
A supply near the Lebanese authorities reported that two Ministers from the Amal Motion, Hezbollah’s fellow Shiite social gathering and a key ally, and one Minister from the group itself had authorized the cupboard’s resolution.
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