US President Donald Trump said “progress has been made” in ending the fighting in Lebanon. Iran-backed Hezbollah “called us and they said, ‘How about stopping?’” Trump said Thursday. Trump also said he talked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump’s comments came after Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters launched attacks yesterday despite a fresh US-brokered truce agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
The ceasefire hinged on an end to Hezbollah attacks, but the group was not party to the talks and its leader rejected the pact.
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On the ground: Hezbollah targeted Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon on the first day of the ceasefire agreement, while attacks on northern Israel appeared to decline. An Israeli soldier was killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile in southern Lebanon. And in the southeast, one peacekeeper with the United Nations Interim Force died and two others were injured after a mortar shell struck their position.
Hezbollah defiant: The group’s leader Naim Qassem said the “imaginary ceasefire” that requires the group to stop fighting and withdraw from southern Lebanon while allowing Israel to “continue its aggression” would amount to “a surrender, defeat and achieving the enemy’s goals.”
In the US: The House rejected a Democrat-led Lebanon war powers resolution. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, would have directed Trump to remove US armed services from the country within seven days. House Democratic leaders said they would oppose it, and noted “there are no U.S. servicemembers involved in combat operations or hostilities in Lebanon.”
EU grants aid: The European Union approved another 100 million euros (around $116 million) in aid to the Lebanese army in an effort to strengthen the ceasefire. Lebanon has been struggling due to severe economic collapse, and the military had long pleaded that it lacked the funding and equipment to fully assert control in the south.
CNN’s Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, Zeena Saifi, Sarah Tamimi and Charbel Mallo contributed reporting.
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