Israeli forces At least 22 people have been killed and more than 124 injured in southern Lebanon after protesters demanded their withdrawal. The cease-fire agreement with HezbollahLebanese authorities said.

The dead included two women and a Lebanese army soldier, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

Dem protesters, some of them carrying Hezbollah flags, tried to enter several villages to protest the failure of a 60-day deadline for Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war in late November.

On Friday, Israel would keep troops in the south until Sunday's deadline, as the Lebanese army was not yet fully deployed to prevent Hezbollah from resuming its presence. accused Israel of delaying its withdrawal.

The Israeli army blamed Hezbollah for disrupting Sunday's protests.

It said its troops had fired warning shots “to eliminate threats in a number of areas where the suspects are suspected.” It added that a number of suspects were arrested and questioned near Israeli forces.

The development in Lebanon comes as Israel detained thousands of Palestinians from returning to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday, accused of violating an order for its release of hostages.

On Sunday, Lebanese President Joseph Oun stated in a statement addressed to the people of Lebanon on Sunday that “Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity are non-negotiable, and I am raising this issue with your rights and dignity.

He urged them to “exercise self-restraint and trust in the Lebanese armed forces.” The Lebanese army, in a separate statement, said it was escorting civilians to some towns in the border area and urged residents to follow military instructions to ensure their safety.

Parliament speaker Nabih Berr, whose Amal Movement party is allied with Hezbollah and who served with the armed group and the US interlocutor during the cease-fire, said Sunday's bloodshed was an “urgent call to the international community” for Israel. will leave the occupied Lebanese territories”.

Avichan Adrei, the Arabic-language spokesman for Israeli soldier Abishai Adrei, posted that Hezbollah had sent “rebels” and was “trying to subvert the situation in Lebanon and the Arab world.”

He warned the residents of the border area not to try to return to their villages.

“The IDF does not intend to target you and therefore at this stage you are prohibited from returning to your homes from the south until further notice,” he said.

The UN Special Coordinator, Jeanne Honis-Plasschaert, and the head of the UN peacekeeping force, known as Unifil, General, General, Aroldo Lazaro, called in a joint statement for both Israel and Lebanon, as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement. their obligations.

“The fact is that the deadlines planned in November have not been met,” the statement said.

Unfield said further violence risks hampering the fragile security situation in the area and “stability prospects associated with the cessation of hostilities and the formation of a government in Lebanon.”

It called for the full withdrawal of Israeli troops, the removal of unauthorized weapons and assets from south of the Lebanon River, the redeployment of the Lebanese Army in southern Lebanon, and the safe and dignified return of displaced civilians on both sides of the Blue Line.

Overnight, a group jammed at the Unifil Base near Mays Al-abal, during the installation of roadblocks in the area of ​​the Israeli army. Journalists report that the session heard the shooting and prosperity from the base on Sunday, and the peacekeepers say. that dozens of protesters gathered nearby.

In the village of Aita Al Shaab, families wandered through flattened concrete structures looking for the remains of the homes they left behind. No Israeli forces were present.

“These are our homes,” said one returning resident, Hussain Bajuk. “Yet they are destroying, we will rebuild.”

Bajuk added that he is convinced that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut in September, is indeed alive.

“I don't know how long we're going to wait, another month or two months … but Syed will come out and talk,” he said, using an honorific for Nasrallah.

On the other side of the border at Kibbutz Manchara, Orna Weinberg asked about the destruction of her neighbors and Lebanese villages across the border.

“Unfortunately, we have no way to protect our own children without harming their children,” said Weinberg, 58. “It's a tragedy on all sides.”

About 112,000 Lebanese remain displaced, out of more than 1 million who fled their homes during the war.