The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported that Israeli occupation prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed his ministers that US President Donald Trump had given him a green light to attack Lebanon, on the pretext that Hezbollah refuses to disarm.
The broadcaster added that Netanyahu told his cabinet that Israel had obtained approval from President Trump to launch an attack on Lebanon due to Hezbollah’s refusal to relinquish its weapons.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli occupation army shelled a bulldozer and detonated a residential building in southern Lebanon, while its drones flew at low altitude over the capital, Beirut and its southern suburb. This took place as part of Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in force since November 2024.
The Lebanese National News Agency stated that an enemy drone targeted at dawn on Wednesday a bulldozer in the vicinity of the Abu al Laban neighbourhood in the town of Aita al Shaab in the Bint Jbeil district. It added that an enemy force detonated a three-storey building in the Bab al Thaniyah area west of the town of Khiam, without clarifying the method used.
In the same context, Israeli warplanes carried out aerial sorties at low and medium altitudes over several southern villages, reaching as far as Zahrani and Sidon, accompanied by intensive drone activity over the skies of Nabatieh.
In late December of last year, the broadcaster said that the Israeli army had prepared a plan to launch a wide-scale attack on Hezbollah targets if efforts by the Lebanese government and army failed to disarm the group.
At the time, the broadcaster quoted a senior security source as saying that the United States had been informed that if Hezbollah did not actually disarm, Israel would do so itself, even if this led to days of fighting or even a renewal of hostilities in the north.
On 5 August 2025, the Lebanese government approved the principle of restricting weapons to the hands of the state, including the weapons of Hezbollah, and in September of the same year, it welcomed a five-stage plan prepared by the army to implement this decision. However, Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem repeatedly announced the party’s rejection of disarmament, considering that such a decision would weaken Lebanon in the face of Israel, and called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory.
For some time, Hebrew-language media have spoken of the Israeli army having completed a plan to launch a wide attack against Hezbollah sites if the Lebanese government and army fail to fulfil their commitments to dismantle its weapons.
This comes as Israel continues to violate the ceasefire since 27 November 2024 through near-daily air raids, while maintaining its occupation of five Lebanese hills in the south seized during the last war, in addition to other areas it has occupied for decades.
The ceasefire agreement ended an Israeli assault on Lebanon that began in October 2023, before escalating into a full-scale war in September 2024, resulting in more than 4,000 killed and around 17,000 wounded.
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