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Israel-Hezbollah truce takes effect

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The US-brokered ceasefire was announced on Tuesday following tense negotiations.

A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanon-based armed group Hezbollah, brokered by the US and France, came into force at 4 am local time on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of violations.

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman Avichay Adraee told reporters that Israeli troops would remain in southern Lebanon for the time being. He warned Israelis who fled border towns due to Hezbollah rocket fire that it is not safe to return yet.

The fighting between Hezbollah and the IDF erupted in October 2023, when the pro-Palestinian armed group began firing rockets and mortar shells across the border. Hezbollah said at the time that it would not end the hostilities until Israel stops the war with Hamas in Gaza.

Israel invaded southern Lebanon in early October and stepped up airstrikes on Beirut and other cities, killing several high-ranking Hezbollah members, including the group’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

More than 60 people have been killed in Israel by Hezbollah attacks and more than 3,500 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since October 2023, according to officials from both sides. Some 70,000 people in Israel and around 1.2 million people in Lebanon have been displaced.

Announcing the ceasefire on Tuesday, outgoing US President Joe Biden said Israel would “gradually withdraw its remaining forces” from Lebanon within the next 60 days.

“Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon will not be allowed to be rebuilt,” he stated. According to Biden, the truce is intended to be permanent.

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    • Israhell is also taking a good beating and losing. Despite all their murder, destruction and crimes, the scum who appropriated palestina through terrorism and theft to install a jewish ghetto ( they cannot live otherswise than in a ghetto) will never be able to erradicate resistance of palestinians, being hamas or hezbollah .
      When everything is taken from you, you have nothing to lose, and you are completely free to fight. Freedom is priceless

  1. The IDF is history
    The IDF is an image – images are easily shattered
    Desertions exhaustion refusing to fight – defeated
    Bibi the spin doctor
    After it attacked itself on Oct 7th
    The Jews not Israel created Hamas as a fake controlled opposition so that it could attack itself
    A Golden Calf with much aid from the US military planning and advisors
    To become a clone of the Military Industrial Complex Middle East Division
    Like the US created the bogey man Osama Bin Laden
    To carry out the 911 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan which was already planned and ready to go which would have taken months to put in place
    Real Name Tim Osman British Army who died in a US Military Base hospital in Pakistan in 2001
    Tora Bora?
    1000 hand picked idiots headed by Ardern the cream of the upper echelons of NZ Society (?) selected to dine with Barack Obama and feed out of his hand the lies about how Navy Seals took Osama out in a re election ploy charade
    Who latter mysteriously all died in a helicopter crash
    Dead men tell no secrets
    Yasser Arafat?
    Yes

  2. Trump is busy perpetuating the Iran assassination threat myth
    Setting the table
    Really about making occupied Palestine great again
    Maybe this is why they took Qasem Soleimani out?

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