# Israeli strike near Jannata kills six in eastern Lebanon despite ceasefire
*Event date: 2025-02-09*
An Israeli air raid in eastern Lebanon killed six people and wounded two more, according to Al Jazeera, in the latest breach of a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The strike hit the Shaara area near the town of Jennata in the eastern Bekaa region. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that a drone was behind the attack. The Israeli army said it had struck Hezbollah operatives in a site it described as being used for the production and storage of strategic weapons.
The exchange took place against a ceasefire framework that had been under strain for weeks. Israel said the target activity violated the understandings between the two sides. Hezbollah official Ibrahim Moussawi condemned the raid as a dangerous and explicit aggression and urged Lebanon to stop Israel’s continued attacks.
The significance of the attack goes beyond the single strike. It came after repeated Israeli action in the Bekaa Valley, an area usually associated with Hezbollah influence. The source says Israel had continued military action after the ceasefire came into force and had delayed withdrawing troops from southern Lebanon, citing incomplete implementation by Lebanon.
The truce itself had been designed to reduce cross-border fire and create a mechanism for the Lebanese army to deploy alongside UN peacekeepers as Hezbollah forces pulled back north of the Litani River. Instead, the region remained exposed to a cycle of accusations and retaliatory strikes.
In the two months after November 27 and up to the Monday referenced in the source, Israel had killed at least 83 people in Lebanon, according to data from Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. That larger toll frames the Jannata strike as part of a continuing series rather than a one-off incident.
The immediate effect of the attack was plain: six dead, two wounded. The broader effect is less easily measured, but equally important. Each new strike further weakens confidence that the ceasefire can hold in practice, especially when both sides continue to frame the other as the violator.
For residents in eastern Lebanon, that means the war’s aftermath still feels unfinished. Roads, villages and border areas remain vulnerable to sudden air attacks, even after a formal truce was supposed to reduce the danger.
The latest strike showed how quickly that arrangement can be strained whenever one side says it is responding to a target the other side denies or disputes.
