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Israel refuses to withdraw from Lebanon despite new US-Iran peace deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz declared Sunday that Israeli forces will maintain their "security zone" in southern Lebanon indefinitely.

This defiance comes after a landmark Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran, which includes a regional ceasefire that Israel claims it was not a formal party to. While the U.S. is pressuring Israel to withdraw or at least tighten its rules of engagement, Israeli leadership argues that an immediate pullout would allow Hezbollah to regroup and threaten northern residents. Tensions have peaked as Israel published new military maps of the occupied territory and vowed to "eliminate threats" without restriction, even as Iran warns that the broader peace deal’s success depends on the de-escalation of the Lebanon front.

International mediators are now scrambling to reconcile Israel's security demands with the broader peace deal ahead of high-stakes follow-up talks in Geneva.

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 @BF4YNF6Republican from Texas  commented…2hrs2H

Israel is supposed to be an ally but it seems they are just using us for our power.

 @BF4YZY6 from New York  commented…2hrs2H

Frustration at Israeli leadership and US capitulation

 @BF4Z89V from Indiana  commented…1hr1H

If we don't want to fight anymore than they should leave it alone

 @BF4XH72 from New York  commented…5hrs5H

I am pro Israel's right to exist but anti war

 @BF522GB from Illinois  commented…3mins3m

I know that Isreal is the real enemy and anything that they do could be linked to that. Their no withdrawal from the Iran attack shows a but of there true colors in it.

 @ISIDEWITHlinked…7hrs7H

Why Lebanon may make or break the Iran-US deal

https://aljazeera.com

 @BF524DF from Illinois  commented…23secs23s

I think that we should stop the war in the middle east

 @ISIDEWITHlinked…7hrs7H

Defending Lebanon security zone, Netanyahu says US would do 'exactly' the same if threatened

https://timesofisrael.com

 @BF4ZWSG from Illinois  commented…13mins13m

Israel needs to withdraw from Lebanon because there is peace.

 @BF52238 from California  commented…4mins4m

i think the whole issue is upsetting

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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