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United States President Donald Trump announced on April 16 that a ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah will take effect at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
“I just had excellent conversations with the highly respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“These two leaders have agreed that in order to achieve PEACE between their countries, they will formally begin a 10 Day CEASEFIRE at 5 P.M. EST,” he added.
Trump said that he has directed U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine to “work with Israel and Lebanon to achieve a Lasting PEACE.”
Hezbollah resumed military operations against Israel early in March, just a day after the start of the American-Israeli war on Iran, ending a ceasefire that was brokered by the U.S. more than 15 months earlier. The group cited the assassination of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations as the reasons for its decision.
Shortly after the announcement, Trump wrote in another Truth Social post that he will be inviting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to the White House “for the first meaningful talks between Israel and Lebanon since 1983.”
“Both sides want to see PEACE, and I believe that will happen, quickly!” Trump said.
Earlier in the week, the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors met in the U.S., laying the groundwork for today’s ceasefire announcement,
The last time senior officials from the two countries met in-person was in 1993, as part of the Madrid Peace Conference, which sought to bring together Israel and its Arab neighbors.
According to Israel’s Ynet News, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told security cabinet ministers in a meeting after the announcement that he agreed to the ceasefire in Lebanon at the request of Trump, and pushed back against demands for an official vote on the matter.
“When Israel’s greatest friend, President Trump, is acting alongside us in close coordination, Israel cooperates with him,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying.
He also reportedly told ministers that the Israeli military will remain positioned at the “strategic points” it currently holds during the ten-day ceasefire.
In Lebanon, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam welcomed Trump’s announcement, without going as far as voicing support for a peace agreement.
“As I congratulate all Lebanese on this achievement, I pray for the martyrs who fell, and affirm my solidarity with their families, with the wounded, and with the citizens who were forced to flee their cities and villages,” he says on X. “I hold full hope that they will be able to return to them as soon as possible.”
Meanwhile, Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim al-Moussawi told AFP that the group will respect the ceasefire if Israeli attacks on the organization stop.
“We in Hezbollah will cautiously adhere to the ceasefire on the condition that it is a comprehensive halt to hostilities against us and that Israel not use it to carry out any assassinations,” al-Moussawi said.
“We express thanks to Iran for having applied pressure in Lebanon’s favour,” he added, noting that “the ceasefire would not have happened without Iran considering the ceasefire as equal to closing the Strait of Hormuz.”
In a written statement, Hezbollah ally and speaker of Lebanon’s Parliament Nabih Berri urges Lebanese to “postpone their return to their towns and villages until the situation becomes clearer, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement.”
While recent developments indicate a desire by all sides to de-escalate, a peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon remains highly unlikely.
Even a meeting between Netanyahu and Aoun could cause a serious backlash in Lebanon. Hezbollah is far from being the only party in Lebanon opposed to any normalization with Israel. U.S. attempts to force such a step could easily spark a new civil war in the country.
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the israeli regime perpetually break cease fires.
their position on a cease fire can be simply stated thus: you cease, we fire.
they hit over 100 hezbollah targets last night.
so? during the vietnam war the usaf was doing that nearly everyday, but they still lost.
no christopher they didn’t they succeeded in doing exactly what they wanted they didnt want to have to take control of vietnam. they wanted to do exactly what rome wanted them to do under all the way with lbj. their intentions weren’t what you think.
no bob, i’m nearly 70 and remember the vietnam war. the usaf and usn did operation rolling thunder, which ran from march 2, 1965, to november 2, 1968. 300,000 bombing sorties 44 months or 243 sorties *per day*. and it was considered a strategic failure, as it failed to significantly break north vietnam’s resolve or ability to fight, and then win that war. so the piddly little idf air force 100 sorties in one day is irrelevant.
they did but sf won’t ever publish the truth.
this isn’t going to save the lebanese…heheheh
i see you changed your name. are you no longer hunting iranian school girls? perhaps you exposed your evil mind a tad too much. oops. but we know the truth regardless…
nothing will save you. the talmud may help wipe your ass however
give it a rest ramses you lost your slaves because of moses and then later america ended slavery world wide.
the zionists will not accept any ceasefire. so this will develop into another humilation for trump!
in your dreams ramses. amazing how wishful thinking can be so deceiving
straight out liars like them here, with their filth and degenerate trashy foul mouthed obscene disgusting moderation don’t like the truth.
god bless lebanon, they doing the fight we should be doing
hahahaha the usual classical neo nazi comments typical on sf.
the current count of israli cease fire violations is over two thousand and growing. no real international peace treaty is under consideration. nor will it happen until israel is defeated and driven into the sea. the unsinkable aircraft carrier. can not maintain its bases. past military quick striking abilities are diminishing. the parasite is expendable, even if israelis are to ignorant to recognize.
poor narrative from msm hitler replicas so sour grapes
exacyly and as obvious as the fudged voting here as transparent as a democratic roll call of deceased electors.
is it a ceasefire or a “ceasefire” like before when isreal would just continue to bomb with no one seeing it as a breach of the ceasefire?
well poor sf just hate the truth the straits are open again and the deal will be signed on the 22. sf are rather like magyars news service for pharoah with their number 8 for the octagon great pyramid as their symbol and his colour purple for the king as he shuts town the state media accusing them of not being his favourite things and insisting on freedom of speech, to agree with him and his skinhead mob of fascists imo.
this jewish owned pig called trumpstein is as fake as you can get
looks like the isreali apartheid regime needs a break to resupply and for rotation of its invaders. it will soon be business as usual and the trumpster will claim that hezbollah broke the ‘ceasefire’. when president assad was fighting us/nato terrorists in syria, there were lots of ‘ceasefires’. look how that turned out.
hahaha the deals slated to be signed on the 22. you either understand or you don’t rhetorical.