{"id":172937,"date":"2025-12-07T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/172937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:30:30","slug":"lebanon-ceasefire-implementation-must-include-israels-obligations-not-just-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/172937\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: Ceasefire implementation must include Israel\u2019s obligations, not just Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that the implementation of last year\u2019s ceasefire agreement with Israel must apply to both sides, arguing that political debate has focused unfairly on Hezbollah\u2019s commitments while ignoring clear Israeli violations of the deal.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Speaking during a newsmaker interview with Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent for the Economist at the Doha Forum 2025 on Sunday, Salam said Lebanon is already living through a \u201cwar of attrition\u2026 conducted by one side, by Israel,\u201d despite the ceasefire agreement that Beirut and Tel Aviv endorsed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">\u201cWe should have been in a situation of cessation of hostilities\u2026 which unfortunately has not been abided by Israel first,\u201d Salam said. \u201cThere has been no cessation of hostilities on Israel\u2019s part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The prime minister said enforcement of the deal must be reciprocal and rooted in the commitments each party accepted last year.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">\u201cEveryone should be held accountable for what they agreed to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">He noted that Hezbollah formally accepted the terms of the deal, which he said \u201clists the six and only six actors who can carry arms in Lebanon\u2026 Hezbollah is not among them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">But Salam noted that Israel has not fulfilled its obligations, including withdrawing from several Lebanese border points it seized last year.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">\u201cIsrael was supposed to have withdrawn from all of Lebanese territory\u2026 it occupied 10 months ago. Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The premier dismissed Israeli claims that the positions hold strategic value.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">\u201cNo one was able to convince me that these points have any relevance in the age of satellite imagery, drones\u2026 and balloons monitoring the border,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are not in 1914, 1915, 1916, or World War I, where you need to be on top of a hill to monitor what\u2019s around you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-preview=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/b49bd8586d8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"relative flex w-full px-4 py-3 flex-col items-start gap-6 rounded bg-[#F1F1F1] border-l-0 transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out box-border mb-4 hover:bg-[#F9F9F9] hover:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] focus:bg-[#F9F9F9] focus:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] before:content-[&quot;&quot;] before:absolute before:left-0 before:top-0 before:bottom-0 before:w-[3px] before:rounded-l-md before:bg-[#01ABD9]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flex justify-center items-center rounded-md !w-20 !h-20 aspect-square flex-shrink-0 sm:rounded md:rounded-md lg:!w-[84px] lg:!h-[84px] lg:rounded xl:rounded-md\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765087606856-yjrton-218d532cd1965455aaf29967a15df6031e1c15a325af9f0ede6fc2c8ccca9737.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that the implementation of last year\u2019s ceasefire agreement with Israel must apply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-172937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}