PM rejects proposal from US, France and other allies and vows to continue striking Lebanon
calls from the US, France and other allieson Thursday, in which health authorities said 28 people had been killed, and at least 150 rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, according to the Israeli military.
His office had earlier distanced the Israeli government from the ceasefire plan, which it described as “an American-French proposal that the prime minister has not even responded to”. “We have additional missions to complete in order to ensure the safe return of Israel’s northern communities to their homes. We will continue throwing Hezbollah off balance and deepening their loss.”
The families of the Gaza hostages have also said they are pushing for any Lebanon ceasefire deal to include clauses on Gaza, focused on securing the release of the roughly 70 hostages thought to still be alive and the bodies of about 30 others. Lebanon’s health ministry said 19 Syrian refugees and a Lebanese citizen had been killed in one strike in north-east Lebanon on Thursday, bringing the death toll from several days of Israeli bombardment to more than 630 people, about a quarter of whom the ministry said were women or children.
Hezbollah has so far not said whether it would accept the US-French proposal. US officials say they do not expect the militia to be a formal signatory to any ceasefire deal but that the Lebanese government would seek to secure Hezbollah’s compliance.
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