Salam condemns Adraee 'provocative' tour in Khiam

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has condemned a "provocative" tour by the Israeli army's spokesperson Avichay Adraee in the southern town of al-Khiam.

In a statement, Salam described the tour in occupied Lebanese territories as an "aggressive behavior", calling on the international community to "exert maximum pressure on Israel to completely withdraw from the Lebanese territories it still occupies and to stop its land, sea, and air violations."

Adraee had posted Thursday on X a video of him in Khiam. In the video, Adraee told the Lebanese Shiites that they deserve to live in peace and that Hezbollah has destroyed their villages.

Villages of south Lebanon and especially the border villages were extensively destroyed and damaged by the Israeli war that ended in a ceasefire in late November. Despite the ceasefire, Israel continued to carry out attacks on Lebanon and used explosives and bulldozers to destroy and damage civilian structures and agricultural land, claiming that they had previously been used by Hezbollah fighters.