ceasefire<\/a> between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah began on Friday, have complicated the planned talks. Iran views a ceasefire in Lebanon as essential to the diplomatic process and that it could \u201cmake or break\u201d the US-Iran talks.<\/p>\nIsraeli strikes killed 16 people and wounded 12 in Nabatieh district in the country\u2019s south on Saturday, Lebanon\u2019s civil defence agency said.<\/p>\n
A Lebanese soldier was killed in an Israeli attack on the village of Kfar Reman, Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency (NNA) said.<\/p>\n
NNA reported Israeli attacks in Tyre District, with an Israeli strike on the village of Barish killing four members of the same family \u2013 a father, a mother and their two children. Another Israeli raid hit a house in Sohmor in the western Bekaa while a family was inside, killing four people and injuring one, NNA said.<\/p>\n
An Israeli attack on Qanarit in Sidon district killed at least seven people and wounded 13, said Lebanon\u2019s Health Emergency Operations Centre.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Public Health said that 83 people were killed and 141 wounded in Israeli attacks on Friday, just after the renewed ceasefire was announced. Most of the casualties were in southern Lebanon, with others in the country\u2019s east.<\/p>\n
\u2018Shaky nature\u2019 of ceasefire<\/p>\n
Reporting from Tyre in Lebanon, Al Jazeera\u2019s Heidi Pett explained that there were more than 100 Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon since midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a devastating day here; there are civilians among those killed and wounded,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been soldiers from the Lebanese army who have been killed today, one of them in a targeted attack on his motorbike and that has spurred quite a critical response from the Lebanese army, who usually stay out of politics,\u201d Pett added.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry added on Saturday that Israeli attacks since March 2 have killed at least 4,057 people and wounded 12,121 others.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does point to the shaky nature of this ceasefire, and also how the whole negotiating process does seem to be reliant upon Lebanon and what happens here in the coming days and weeks,\u201d reported Al Jazeera\u2019s Rob McBride from Beirut.<\/p>\n
Article 1 of the MOU signed between the US and Iran explicitly states that ending the war in Lebanon is an integral part of the broader ceasefire arrangement across all fronts.<\/p>\n
The Lebanese army said in a statement on Saturday that the continuation of Israeli attacks on Lebanon aimed to obstruct efforts to restore stability in the country.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah \u2060said on Saturday that it had targeted Israeli troops \u2060that had \u2060advanced towards \u2060an area near Nabatieh \u200covernight.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military published a statement soon after saying Hezbollah had launched more than 50 projectiles towards soldiers operating in southern Lebanon overnight, and that the armed group was violating the ceasefire.<\/p>\n
Upcoming talks between Lebanon and Israel<\/p>\n
In November 2024, Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire agreement. Since then, the Lebanese government has been seeking to disarm Hezbollah as part of a US-backed roadmap. The Lebanese government has also pushed for Israel\u2019s withdrawal from southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
The text of an agreement earlier this month called for Hezbollah\u2019s withdrawal to north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, but did not call for Israel\u2019s full withdrawal.<\/p>\n
The US State Department said that a new round of talks between Israel and Lebanon will take place in Washington, DC, on June 23 and 25, and will aim to \u201cmake progress toward a lasting peace\u201d.<\/p>\n
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday that \u201cLebanon\u2019s bilateral negotiations with Israel represent the only feasible path to reconstruction, economic recovery and ending recurrent cycles of violence\u201d, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n
However, the talks have not included Hezbollah, hampering any meaningful progress.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Ali Fayyad, a representative of the Hezbollah faction in the Lebanese parliament, said in remarks carried by Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency that the armed group ruled out a ceasefire with Israel while Israeli forces remain on Lebanese territory, warning that any further aggression would be met with a response.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe position of the resistance is clear, unambiguous, non-negotiable and without retreat,\u201d Fayyad said, adding, \u201cA ceasefire while the enemy continues its targeting and assassinations is meaningless. The right to self-defence is established for us and is not subject to bargaining or negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed at least 32 people despite a ceasefire being in place, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,803,80086,31737,129,3,21,19,22,20,25,231941,24],"class_list":["post-715922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}