Berri condemns Israeli detonations near UNESCO-listed Beaufort Castle

Speaker Nabih Berri condemned Friday Israeli detonations near the UNESCO-listed Beaufort Castle, and in the towns of Arnoun, Kfartibnit, Yohmor al-Shqif, and Hadatha in south Lebanon.

Israel said it destroyed tunnels used by Hezbollah in the Beaufort area using approximately 700 tons of explosives. The tremors from these explosions were felt in the south, and even in the capital Beirut, Berri said, adding that these condemned actions are unacceptable and must not be met "with silence" or treated as a fait accompli.

"If these shockwaves fail to awaken the national and moral consciousness, then humanity and its future are in inevitable peril."

A June 20 truce between Lebanon and Israel has largely held, but the destruction of southern occupied villages has not stopped.

Israeli strikes and artillery shelling on the south have not cease, but only declined, and are now limited mainly to villages sitting on the Israeli-declared yellow line separating occupied villages from the rest of the south.