Netanyahu Announces Possible Ceasefire Deal With Lebanon
Netanyahu: “If Hezbollah tries to attack us, if it arms itself and rebuilds infrastructure near the border, we will attack.”
On Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a possible ceasefire arrangement with Lebanon.
The truce will be temporary, and Israel reserves the right to conduct military operations against Hezbollah in case terrorist buildup resumes along the country’s northern border, the Israeli prime minister said in a televised address.
“The duration of the ceasefire depends on what happens in Lebanon,” Netanyahu said. “If Hezbollah tries to attack us, if it arms itself and rebuilds infrastructure near the border, we will attack.”
The ceasefire, yet to be approved by Israel’s security cabinet, will be formally announced on Tuesday night local time and will come into effect Wednesday morning. “Presidents Biden and Macron will announce the deal during the night, with the alleged agreement set to take effect at 10 a.m. tomorrow,” the Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday.
'We will continue on to victory,' Netanyahu says ahead of a cabinet vote on ceasefire, vowing to act against any Hezbollah violations and focus on Iran and Hamas pic.twitter.com/aKTvRRdBQ5
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The British daily Telegraph reported:
Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon after weeks of negotiations with the US and other Western allies.
Israel’s prime minister confirmed he would present the deal to his cabinet in a televised address on Tuesday. The deal could come into force as early as Wednesday.
During the speech, Mr Netanyahu said the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) had set Hezbollah back decades.
He said: “Hezbollah is no longer the same. We set them back decades. We have destroyed many missiles and rockets, we have killed many terrorists.”
The US-led proposal involves the terror group leaving southern Lebanon and Israel withdrawing its forces from the country.
The ceasefire announcement comes exactly eight weeks after Israel launched a ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. On October 8, 2023, the Iran-backed terrorist group opened a second front in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacre. Nearly 60,000 residents of northern Israel were forced to evacuate their homes amid relentless cross-border rocket and drone attacks by Hezbollah.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) successfully eliminated Hezbollah’s entire terrorist leadership, including its chief Hassan Nasrallah. Israel ground troops continue to dismantle terrorist infrastructure and target Hezbollah’s fighting force in southern Lebanon.
Israel hit Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold ahead of ceasefire
Ahead of the anticipated ceasefire, Israeli armed forces carried out a series of airstrikes on Hezbollah terror targets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. “Waves of Israeli strikes pounded Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold on Tuesday in the most intense raids on the Lebanese capital in two months of full-scale war with Israel,” the France24 TV channel reported.
“The IAF (Israeli Air Force) has completed a series of intelligence-based strikes on 20 terror targets in the area of Beirut,” the Israeli military said in a statement Tuesday morning.
“These strikes included 13 terror targets in the Dahieh area, a key Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut. Among the targets struck were a Hezbollah aerial defense unit center, an intelligence center, command centers, weapons storage facilities, an operations room, an artillery storage facility, and terrorist infrastructure sites,” the Israeli military added.
Southern Lebanon: IDF destroys Hezbollah rocket launchers, weapons dump
The IDF also destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers in Southern Lebanon. On Tuesday, “the IAF struck approximately 20 launchers, including the launchers used to fire toward the Haifa Bay and Western Galilee areas earlier today,” the military said.
The Air Force also “struck Hezbollah terror targets in the areas of Naqoura and Yater in southern Lebanon, including weapons storage facilities and command centers,” the military said.
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Mistake
I disagree.
Part of the impetus for the Massacre was that peace and prosperity could not be allowed to go unchecked. The oil deal between Israel and Lebanon, lopsided as it was, improved relations and brought more revenue to the region. Those things are not good for recruiting more jihadis, so Hezbollah and Hamas threw a fit.
Basically, Lebanon can decide if it wants to be more like Dubai or more like Tehran. I know which one I will be rooting for.
Blood got oil, sounds familiar
For oil.. phone
It will be a mistake for Hezbullah if they break the ceasefire.
Militarily they are f88ked and they got f88good and hard by the Jews and the best part of all this is that they brought this all on themselves 😂
Now, if I was Lebanon I’d be looking to take advantage of the weakened Hesbullah to root them out once and for all and I suspect Israel would only be too happy to help them do this.
The only cease fire is the one where all of Hezbollah along with Hamas cease to be,
Until Islam is known as Waslam there will be problems.
As I said, this is good for both Lebanon and Israel if Lebanon musters up the governmental willpower to stop harboring filth. The US and other pro-Israel allies would be happy to assist.
If Lebanon does not rise to the occasion, they will receive the same kind of help that they are currently getting.
Big if.
rope-a-dope
This could have been done a few months ago. All Hezbollah had to do was stop sending rockets into Israel. I guess they were running out of leaders and Biden wanted a win for his pathetic legacy.
I understand from elsewhere that this deal was forced on Israel by Brandon and Blinken. We can hope that Hezbollah will be stupid enough to break the ceasefire.
Yes they Biden wants a win desperately
Where’s Hamas and our American hostages
I really wish Trump would have pounded this home
Media, nothing
I was just about to ask, when do the hostages get released?
The pause to reload?
Please keep pagers handy for the final announcement,
– Benjamin ‘BoomBoom’ Netanyahu
Hezbollah has already attacked again
I hope this allows Israel to rest and regroup and prepare a takedown of the Iranian regime. Hezbollah will dissolve away before they reconstitute if Iran can’t support them anymore.
Did anybody else notice the title of the Sun video above? “Terrifying Moment Huge Explosion ….”
Dear The Sun:
When have explosions been anything other than terrifying?
When have explosions been anything other than huge, for the people nearby?
Has warfare ever involved explosions that weren’t terrifying?
Is this how WWII was covered?
Is this how wars in Nigeria and Somalia and Sudan and Myanmar and Ukraine and Russia are reported?
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