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If you don't act, we will act, and with great force." ... There is not an excuse for not implementing a ceasefire. Otherwise, Lebanon will fall apart."
Defense Minister Israel Katz warned U.N. envoy Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert ... EU diplomat Josep Borrell defended the ceasefire plan, saying
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I think you can understand that where we’re going to be today is that this remains a top priority for the President ... to get this ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah so that the rockets and the missiles stop and so that people can start moving back to their homes and restarting their lives along that Blue Line,
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said
Over the past two weeks since Trump won his second term, the Saudis have hosted the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, called the situation [in Gaza] a genocide, and met with the Iranians and the Chinese,
Ulrichsen said
The Qatari prime minister … expressed back in the spring that the space for negotiation was closing,
said Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Middle East Fellow at the Baker Institute think tank in Houston, Texas
Hunger has been used as an arm against people who are completely abandoned,
he said, referencing the recent issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
Don’t mess with the Jews.”
Joining an infantry force in Lebanon last month, a helmet-clad Kushmaro blew up a house in an occupied Shia village while boasting
We’re elected by the public, and we can enact regime change if we want,
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Let’s hope that today, Netanyahu’s government will approve the cease-fire agreement,
Borrell said
We need a few kilometres free of any Lebanese citizens. A buffer zone is necessary between southern Lebanon and Israel. If anyone enters, they should be shot down,
he said bluntly
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We must not do a half-hearted job
Benny Gantz, an Israeli opposition leader and former member of the war cabinet, was among the first to publicly slam the agreement writing on X
Has everyone here gone crazy?”
wrote Avichai Stern, the mayor of Kiryat Shmona, in a curt statementAs long as Hezbollah is firing missiles at Israel, there is nothing to discuss. We must bring them to their knees,
he told The Independent, ... adding heThis agreement brings the October 7th attack closer to the north, and that must not happen. I don’t understand how we went from seeking total victory to complete surrender. Why not finish what we started?”
he saidThe two-state solution will come later. Everything will come later. But we are talking about weeks or days,
for desperate Palestinians ... he said
Like it or not, the International Criminal Court is a court as powerful as any national court,
Borrell saidOn the proposal agreement brokered by the U.S. and France, Israel has all security concerns (addressed),
Borrell told reporters in Fiuggi, Italy
We want to repeat, visibly, our solidarity from Italy and the G7,
Tajani told the ministers at the start of Tuesday’s sessionWe’re close” but “nothing is done until everything is done
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said in Washington on Monday night
They have become absolutely convinced that the only way they can go home is if Hezbollah is destroyed” because that is the message the state has “instilled in them”,
he saidI am angry against the world that has failed to bring one solution to the two regions,
Abdel-Ghani