Israel’s leaders have warned that its military would resume strikes on the Hezbollah stronghold of Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahieh, if the group launched cross-border attacks on northern Israeli communities.<\/p>\n
According to the Lebanese government, the partial ceasefire agreed on Monday states that “Israel will not launch a broad offensive on Beirut in exchange for Hezbollah refraining from launching attacks against Israel”.<\/p>\n
The government said Hezbollah had confirmed its acceptance, but a member of the group’s political council, Mahmoud Qamati, told the BBC on Tuesday: “There was no ceasefire agreement, just the protection of Dahieh.”<\/p>\n
Qamati also insisted that Hezbollah would not abide by any commitments made at the Lebanese-Israeli talks in Washington.<\/p>\n
“We think these negotiations do not concern us, nor do we recognise their findings or decisions, because we have rejected them on principle,” he said.<\/p>\n
At Beirut’s waterfront, where thousands of displaced people are living in tents with limited access to food, clean water and bathrooms, Mariam Hessa said she wanted a ceasefire that covered the whole country.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think it’s fair, because always the south is being bombed, and the houses [are] being damaged, destroyed, people are dying,” the 23-year-old student told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“I want the ceasefire to be for all Lebanon, not just for an area like Dahieh or even the south. No, it’s for all Lebanon. We need this.”<\/p>\n
The partial ceasefire was announced by US President Donald Trump, who on Wednesday appeared to confirm a report that it was brokered after he had called Netanyahu “crazy” in an expletive-laden call prompted by the prime minister’s order to bomb the Lebanese capital.<\/p>\n
“I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon,” Trump told the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast. “At some point, I said: ‘Bibi [Netanyahu], we’ve got to stop this.'”<\/p>\n
Netanyahu subsequently agreed to hold off from striking Beirut, but he stressed that the Israeli military would continue operating in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
When asked about the call in an interview with CNBC, Netanyahu said: “Sometimes, like the best families, we have these tactical disagreements. We always find a way to resolve them.”<\/p>\n
Trump is said to be concerned that further escalation in Lebanon could jeopardise a wider deal to end the war between the US, Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n
Iran has warned the US that any regional ceasefire must include Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel’s leaders have warned that its military would resume strikes on the Hezbollah stronghold of Beirut’s southern suburbs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-619470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}