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Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches ...
Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is “no ceasefire in Lebanon” and Israel would continue “to strike Hezbollah with full force” as the country’s military launched fresh strikes. The Israeli prime minister’s remarks and latest attacks on what the IDF called “Hezbollah launch sites” came shortly after Donald Trump said he had asked Netanyahu to be more “low-key” in Lebanon.Later on Friday, a US state department official said Israel and Lebanon will hold talks in Washington next week. The announcement came as Netanyahu ordered his ministers to seek direct talks with Lebanon focused on disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah.Neither Israel nor Lebanon have publicly confirmed the US talks for next week.Earlier, the Lebanese government had said a ceasefire must be agreed before any talks could begin.Deadly Israeli strikes hit Beirut – videoIn a written message, Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, said the Islamic republic did not want war with the US and Israel, but would protect its rights as a nation, state television reported on Thursday.“We did not seek war and we do not want it,” he said. “But we will not renounce our legitimate rights under any circumstances, and in this respect, we consider the entire resistance front as a whole,” he added, in an apparent reference to Lebanon.More than 300 people were killed by Israeli bombing in the 24 hours after the announcement of a ceasefire in the Iran war on Tuesday night. The bombardment, ostensibly aimed at Hezbollah targets, included strikes with heavy munitions on densely populated areas, which drew outrage from the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international humanitarian organisations.The ferocious attack on Lebanon threatened to derail hopes of a negotiated end to the war in Iran, which began with a US-Israeli attack on 28 February. Despite claims by the US president, Donald Trump, that the Pakistani-brokered ceasefire had marked significant progress towards bringing a durable peace to the Middle East, the truce looked in danger of collapsing on its first day.The Israeli strikes on Beirut were condemned by various world leaders and humanitarian organisations. Photograph: Raghed Waked/ReutersIran warned that, in response to the Israeli attacks after the ceasefire, it would once more close the strait of Hormuz, the economically critical waterway it had agreed to open for the two-week duration of the ceasefire. The country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said negotiations were “meaningles...
Netanyahu seeks Lebanon talks as ceasefire strains - RTÉ
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today he is seeking direct talks with Beirut, a day after the worst bombardment of the war killed more than 300 people in Lebanon and placed Donald Trump's US-Iran ceasefire in jeopardy. Mr Trump announced a ceasefire in the six-week-old Iran conflict late on Tuesday, just hours before a deadline after which he threatened to destroy Iran’s entire civilisation. In Pakistan, authorities were preparing for the first round of US-Iran talks, locking down parts of the capital Islamabad. But there was no sign Iran was lifting its near-total blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused the worst disruption to global energy supplies in history, with Israel’s ongoing attacks on Lebanon cited as a key sticking point. In a defiant statement, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said today that Iran was not seeking war but will not forfeit its rights. The statement attributed to Mr Khamenei was read on state TV. He has not been seen in public since he took over from his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war. Mr Khamenei said Iran will seek retribution for attacks against it and "will take management of the Straits of Hormuz into a new phase". He also vowed to avenge the deaths of his father and Iran’s "martyrs". Watch: US did not agree that ceasefire would cover Lebanon - Vance Few signs of increased traffic In the first 24 hours of the ceasefire, just a single oil products tanker and five dry bulk carriers sailed through a strait that typically accommodated 140 ships a day before the war, accounting for around a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows. Mr Netanyahu, whose government rebuffed a historic offer for direct talks with Lebanon last month, said in a statement that he had given instructions to start peace talks as soon as possible, which would also include disarming Iran-aligned militant group Hezbollah. "In light of Lebanon’s repeated requests to open direct negotiations with Israel, I instructed the cabinet yesterday to start direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible," he said. "The negotiations will focus on disarming Hezbollah and establishing peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon." An hour before Mr Netanyahu’s statement, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he was working on a diplomatic track on this matter that was starting to be seen "positively" by international actors. A senior Lebanese official told Reuters that Lebanon had spent ...
Netanyahu greenlights Israel-Lebanon talks in Washington amid ceasefire ...
The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers to seek direct talks with Lebanon focused on disarming Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Benjamin Netanyahu Asks Cabinet To Initiate Israel-Lebanon Peace Talks ...
Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered direct talks with Lebanon to pursue Hezbollah's disarmament and a lasting peace deal. Talks are set to begin in Washington, even as Israel continues ...
