In a blatant violation of the ceasefire and the Lebanese sovereignty, the Israeli enemy escalated Monday its attacks on South Lebanon and Bekaa, leaving one martyr, two injuries, and materialistic losses.

The Zionist escalation started in South Lebanon with machine gun bursts fired by the Israeli army towards safe houses in the town of Naqoura, in a scene that reflects the persistence in targeting civilians and infrastructure.

This was followed by an airstrike on the town of Ainata near the municipality building, injuring a citizen in the Bint Jbeil-Maroun al-Ras triangle area.

A Zionist drone bombed a motorcycle near the Marjeyoun power station, killing one person according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

In a statement, the directorate called the attack “a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement,” and “a dangerous escalation.”

An army soldier was also injured when another drone strike targeted a Lebanese bulldozer while carrying out some work inside the Abbara military site in the Hosh Sayyed Ali-Hermel area in eastern Lebanon, NNA said.

The attacks came shortly after the army said that the body of a Lebanese officer who had been unaccounted for since Nov. 26 after an Israeli airstrike was found in Naqoura town in southern Lebanon.

Al-Manar correspondent reported that “after the withdrawal of 6 Merkava tanks this morning from the eastern and southern neighborhoods of the city of Khiyam towards the Al-Wata area, the withdrawal of an additional number of vehicles, including tanks, was observed.”

Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, for his part, asked the committee supervising the cease-fire with Israel to oblige Tel Aviv to stop its violations of the deal and withdraw from the Lebanese territories.

Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that the US administration warned ‘Israel’ against the cease-fire violations, adding that the presidential envoy Amos Hochstein notified Tel Aviv officials that the deal is being violated by the Zionist side.

For his part, the French foreign minister Jean Noel Barrot told his Zionist counterpart Gideon Saar about the necessity of stopping the ceasefire violations.

On Nov. 27, a cease-fire agreement between Lebanon and Israel took effect, ending over 14 months of fighting between the Israeli army and Hezbollah.

Lebanese media reported around 73 Israeli violations of the cease-fire deal since it came into force last week, turning it to be a mere ease-fire.