Burak Bir<\/p>\n
17 April 2026\u2022Update: 17 April 2026<\/p>\n
The British foreign secretary on Friday “strongly” welcomed the announcement of a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, urging all parties to seize this opportunity to open a pathway to a lasting peace.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Yvette Cooper said that over the last six weeks, the people of Lebanon have been dragged into a conflict they did not want.<\/p>\n
“This ceasefire offers desperately needed hope to civilians in both countries – for people to return to their homes, and for those who have suffered the most in this war to be allowed to start rebuilding their lives,” she noted.<\/p>\n
Cooper urged both Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah to respect the ceasefire. “This must be the moment to open a pathway to a lasting peace. We urge all the parties to seize this opportunity.”<\/p>\n
She underlined that the UK will continue to play its “full part to support” those in need and to help ensure this ceasefire becomes an enduring peace.<\/p>\n
At least 2,196 people have been killed and 7,185 wounded during 45 days of Israeli attacks on Lebanon, with over 1 million displaced, according to official figures.<\/p>\n
Israel launched a war on Lebanon in October 2023, and a ceasefire was declared in November the following year, but Israel continued to violate it daily before expanding its offensive on March 2.<\/p>\n
Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, some for decades and others since the previous war between October 2023 and November 2024.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Lebanon agreed to begin a 10-day ceasefire starting at midnight local time in Beirut and Tel Aviv (2100GMT).<\/p>\n
The announcement followed Tuesday’s US-mediated talks between Lebanese and Israeli delegations at the State Department in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burak Bir 17 April 2026\u2022Update: 17 April 2026 The British foreign secretary on Friday “strongly” welcomed the announcement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":{"0":"post-397054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sitekeywords"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397054","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=397054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}