Israel says military operations in Lebanon will continue despite ceasefire announcement
Israel says its forces will keep operating in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah rejects the truce and U.S.-backed talks leave 170 Serbian peacekeepers in the mission, officials said.
- On Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem rejected the US-brokered ceasefire agreement with Israel, calling the negotiations "futile" and "humiliating" for Lebanon and stating the group would not adhere to the truce.
- Negotiators in Washington proposed "pilot zones" where the Lebanese Armed Forces would maintain exclusive control, requiring the "evacuation of all operatives" from areas south of the Litani River.
- Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz stated the military will "for the time being, continue its fire and operations on the ground" to dismantle infrastructure, despite the proposed ceasefire framework.
- Multiple Israeli strikes on Thursday killed five people in the Bekaa Valley and one in Maaroub, as Qassem maintained that Hezbollah would not accept any agreement conditioning peace on its disarmament.
- Representatives plan to meet again on 22 June to hold further talks, though at least 3,526 people have been killed in Lebanon since the war began in March.
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Iran declares support for Hezbollah with wider peace deal in doubt
Iran has reaffirmed support for its Lebanese ally Hezbollah and demanded Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon, underscoring complications facing an interim deal to end the broader conflict between the U.S. and Iran. Iran has made a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah a condition for any peace deal with Washington to resolve the regional war, now in its fourth month, and restart shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The latest round of fight…
Beirut. The leader of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement, Naim Qassem, yesterday rejected the latest anti-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese government and demanded a global ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territory, arguing that the plan is a road map to annihilate some of the Lebanese people.
Israeli night strikes on the city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon, killed seven people. The day before, Hezbollah leader Naïm Qassem rejected the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon announced on Thursday
The Hezbollah militia rejects the conditions for a new ceasefire with Israel. Fights between Iran and the US continue.
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