Serdar Dincel<\/p>\n
06 July 2026\u2022Update: 06 July 2026<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun warned Monday that Israel\u2019s ongoing occupation of territory in the south prevents the army deployment in the area.<\/p>\n
“Israel must be pressured to withdraw from the areas it occupies in Lebanon,” Aoun said during a video call with American Task Force on Lebanon, as cited by a presidency statement.<\/p>\n
The Lebanese army and security forces “are the cornerstone of stability and security” in southern Lebanon and \u201care essential to enabling residents to return to their towns and homes,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
“There is no place for civil war in Lebanon, and its return is not on the table, despite attempts by some parties to rekindle sectarian strife,” Aoun said.<\/p>\n
Negotiation “is the only option left after the war failed to achieve its declared objectives,” he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless Israel withdraws from Lebanese territory, the situation will not serve the goals set by Washington and Beirut regarding the restoration of Lebanon’s sovereignty, independence, and strong institutions,” the Lebanese president warned.<\/p>\n
“The suspension of lawsuits between Israel and Lebanon is limited to the period of negotiations and does not mean abandoning these lawsuits entirely,” Aoun said.<\/p>\n
On June 26, Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement under US mediation, which provides for a phased Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n
The agreement, however, does not set a timetable for a full withdrawal and links further pullbacks to the Lebanese army assuming security responsibilities and the disarmament of non-state armed groups, including Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
Lebanese officials said the agreement represented a \u201cfirst step\u201d toward restoring state sovereignty over all its territory and allowing displaced people to return to their towns.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah, however, called the agreement \u201cnull and void,\u201d saying that linking Israeli withdrawal to its disarmament crossed \u201call red lines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since March 2, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed more than 4,300 people and injured over 12,000 others, according to official figures.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces also continue to occupy areas in southern Lebanon, some held for decades and others seized during the 2023-2024 war, while advancing more than 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) into Lebanese territory during the latest offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serdar Dincel 06 July 2026\u2022Update: 06 July 2026 Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun warned Monday that Israel\u2019s ongoing occupation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-528291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528291","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=528291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}