A new day of Israeli violations in the south… and research into the repercussions of the war continues
More than a month after the ceasefire, Israeli forces still insist on violating the agreement, as they continue to target and bulldoze homes in several towns in southern Lebanon.
In the latest developments, the Israeli army today carried out sweeping operations with machine guns in the areas extending between Yater, Beit Lev and Ramiya, and had fired two shells at the Al-Rumiyeh area located between Beit Lev and Yater in the Bint Jbeil District.
This morning, a large Israeli force penetrated the town of Beit Lev, where Israeli army vehicles were seen on the town’s road near the water tank, with drones and warplanes constantly flying overhead.
The operation included an Israeli patrol supported by Merkava tanks, vehicles, and a bulldozer, and it headed to the outskirts of the town, which had not witnessed similar incursions since the war on Lebanon.
The forces also searched homes in areas surrounding the towns of Ramia and Al-Qozah, while a Merkava tank targeted one of the homes with two shells.
Israeli warplanes flew at low altitude over the capital, Beirut, and the southern suburbs, while reconnaissance aircraft were also observed flying at low altitude over the city of Tire and the villages of Tire district.
The army detonates unexploded ordnance
In another context, the Lebanese army is completing its tasks in exposing the repercussions of the war.
The Army Command, Directorate of Orientation, announced in a statement that on 1/2/2025, between 11:00 and 17:00, army units will detonate unexploded ordnance in several areas, including: Al-Qulaya field in Marjayoun, Al-Yabsa field in… Rashaya, the Baqi’a region in the north, the Ras Baalbek region, and the Naameh region in the Chouf.
Another unit will also detonate unexploded ordnance in the Qulaila field – Tire and the Rashaf – Bint Jbeil area between 14:30 and 18:00.
Karaki visits Tire and discusses the repercussions of the war
On the other hand, the Director General of the National Social Security Fund, Muhammad Karaki, toured the Fund’s center in the city of Tyre, where he was received by the representative of the General Labor Union, Muhammad Harqus, the head of the Administrative Control Unit in the South, Hussein Qanso, the president and members of the “Tyre Merchants Association,” and the owners of government and private hospitals in Tire city.
After a welcome from the head of the center, Mohamed Bazoun, Dr. Karaki said: After we inspected the Fund’s center in the city of Nabatieh last week, our stop today was in the city of Tire to look closely at the damage caused to the city as a result of the Israeli aggression and to see the needs of insured citizens and users of the National Social Security Fund. Thus, it was a field visit and immediate solutions to a large number of issues that were facing the insured and employers.”
Karki confirmed the important achievements achieved by the Fund, which citizens began to feel at the end of last year, and will be concretely consolidated at the beginning of the new year, through the return of the guarantee to what it was in hospitalization with regard to the amounts deducted for surgical work, so that the insured persons are now admitted to the hospital and the hospital bill is covered by a percentage 90 percent is accepted by the guarantee, and they pay 10 percent of the invoice value.”
Karaki added: “More important than that is the return of everything related to chronic medications, such as blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer, to what they were before the crisis, so that the insurance contribution to them will be 80 percent in pharmacies and 90 to 95 percent in hospitals.”
Karaki stressed “the importance of working to improve the end-of-service compensation for employees, by increasing the minimum wage, which was enshrined in increasing the end-of-service compensation, and by working on the law proposal submitted by Representative Faisal Karami, as technical meetings began last week until we formulate a formula acceptable to All parties, and it will intensify until the Technical Committee is able to come up with practical proposals to pass this law and do justice to those who left work before the year 2023 and the people who left their jobs after 2023.
Dr. Karaki called for “approving the draft law exempting those affected by the war from some taxes and fees, which was presented by the Minister of Finance, in appreciation of the situation that institutions are experiencing due to the war and the difficult circumstances that have befallen Lebanon, but we are now forced to implement the current law until it is approved.” “The project.”
Karaki extended congratulations to the center’s director and the rest of the employees on the glorious holidays, wishing it to be a good year for everyone.
