US EditionHezbollah Rejects Truce Talks as Israel Presses Lebanon Strikes
Hezbollah refuses talks under fire, calling it surrender, as over 1,000 killed and one million displaced amid intense cross-border attacks, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem rejected negotiations with Israel, stating that talks held "under fire" would amount to "surrender" for Lebanon as hostilities continued.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces are "expanding" a "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon, aiming to control territory reaching the Litani River.
- Lebanese authorities report more than 1,000 people killed and one million displaced since the conflict began on March 2, with 42 health workers among the casualties.
- Hezbollah claimed attacks on Israeli troops with "more than 100 rockets," while Israeli warplanes struck Beirut's southern suburbs, "including a command centre."
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that "the Gaza model must not be replicated in Lebanon," urging both sides to cease operations "hitting civilians the hardest.
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Hezbollah rejects truce talks as Israel presses Lebanon strikes
Hezbollah swept away all negotiations "under fire" with Israel, which continued its strikes on the strongholds of the Shiite party.
War in Lebanon: Hezbollah says negotiating with Israel would be surrender
As Israel launched new strikes on Beirut suburbs and Lebanon's south, Hezbollah, which claimed attacks on Israeli troops in Lebanon and Israel's north, dismissed the Lebanese president's calls for direct negotiations with Israel.
Naim Qassem called on the Lebanese government to lift the ban it has imposed on the organization's military activities.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah swept away all negotiations "under fire" with Israel, which continued its strikes on the strongholds of the pro-Iranian group in Lebanon. Israeli strikes killed 1,094 people, including 121 children, resulting in more than 3,000 injuries and more than one million internally displaced persons since 2 March, according to a new ...
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