TRUCE?
Despite Trump expressing hope that the two sides would stop fighting ‘for ETERNITY,’ Israel struck southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah fired into northern Israel
AFP, BEIRUT
Israel yesterday conducted strikes on south Lebanon and Hezbollah fired into northern Israel, after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement to halt attacks that neither side has publicly accepted.According to Lebanese authorities, Hezbollah would no longer fire into Israel under the agreement, while the Israeli military would cease striking south Beirut, long a bastion of the Iran-backed militant group.The developments followed a dramatic escalation in violence that saw Israeli troops stage their deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades, conducting waves of heavy bombardment and threatening to strike the south Beirut suburbs.
A palm tree stands yesterday at the site of an Israeli strike carried out last week in Tyre, Lebanon.
