Lebanon’s deputy PM says ceasefire cannot work <\/a><\/p>\nLebanese Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri says the government cannot exercise its authority over the country while Israel continues its bombardments and occupation.<\/p>\n
“There will be ups and downs, but the potential for success is great,” Mr Leiter wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Iran’s clerical state, Hezbollah’s patron, has demanded a lasting ceasefire in Lebanon before any peace agreement with US President Donald Trump, who has been frustrated by Tehran’s refusal to an accord on his terms.<\/p>\n
‘Unacceptable’ toll<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people have died in Israeli strikes despite the truce announced on April 17.<\/p>\n
Even as talks were wrapping up in Washington, Israel’s military issued evacuation orders for the southern city of Tyre, where it said it was hitting Hezbollah infrastructure.<\/p>\n
An AFP correspondent reported a series of strikes, two of them near Tyre, while state media said another targeted a centre run by a local NGO near a hospital.<\/p>\n
Lebanon’s health ministry said the strikes on the Tyre district wounded at least 37 people, including six hospital personnel, nine women and four children.<\/p>\n
Hafez Ramadan, a resident near the building targeted by the air strike, said it had housed people who had fled their towns due to the war, and was adjacent to a hotel where more displaced were staying.<\/p>\n
“There are only women, children and the elderly here,” he said. “Because of this strike, people have been displaced again.”<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said another of its soldiers was killed in southern Lebanon, bringing the number of Israeli soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah since early March to 19. A civilian contractor was also killed.<\/p>\n
It said it killed more than 220 Hezbollah fighters over the past week and struck hundreds of targets.<\/p>\n
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Soldiers blocked the road leading to the tourist site of Rosh HaNikra in northern Israel on Thursday, following a drone strike from Lebanon that injured three Israeli civilians according to the Israeli military. (Reuters: Shir Torem)<\/p>\n
Hezbollah also claimed attacks on Israeli troops in several southern Lebanese towns and a drone attack on the headquarters of the Israeli army’s 300th brigade, one of the units operating in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza, said that diplomacy needed to stop the violence.<\/p>\n
“The reality on the ground in Lebanon has been deeply alarming,” he said. “Air strikes and demolitions continue daily, with an unacceptable toll on civilians and civilian infrastructure.”<\/p>\n
But he expressed his hope that the Lebanon-Israel talks “will pave the way toward a political solution”.<\/p>\n
During the last talks between Israel and Lebanon, Mr Trump brought envoys to the White House and predicted within the current ceasefire period that he would host a historic meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.<\/p>\n
That meeting has not happened, with Mr Aoun saying a security deal was necessary first, and there was no mention of a summit in the last ceasefire extension.<\/p>\n
Lebanon was dragged into the Middle East war on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n
Israeli attacks since then have killed more than 2,900 people in Lebanon, including more than 400 since the truce took effect, according to Lebanese authorities.<\/p>\n
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