Donald Trump assures that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire which, if confirmed, will come into force this Thursday at 10pm Lisbon time. Before this announcement of a truce, Israeli forces launched another wave of attacks on southern Lebanon.
This Thursday morning, hours before Donald Trump assured the imminence of a historic meeting between the Israeli prime minister and the Lebanese president, and later a 10-day ceasefirethe last bridge connecting southern Lebanon to the rest of the country was erased from the map.
The population that remains in this region south of the Litani River, the largest watercourse in Lebanon, estimated at around 150 thousand people, eIt is now disconnected from Beirut and surrounded by Israeli troops.
In six weeks of war, close to 900,000 Lebanese abandoned the border region where Hezbollah is particularly influential and present.
Os displaced people will hardly have the possibility of returning, not only because connections with the region have been cut, but in the meantime, in the occupied areas, Israeli forces are continuing the controlled demolitions of houses that survived the bombings of recent weeks and the last war.
“Yes, we are excited. As far as Lebanon is concerned, we are very excited. I think we will reach an agreement. We will have a meeting for the first time in 44 years. Lebanon will meet with Israel and they will probably do it at the White House,” said Donald Trump.
Asked when the meeting would take place, the US president replied: “In the next two weeks. I think we’re going to have an agreement with Lebanon and they’re going to deal with Hezbollah. They’re going to start resolving the Hezbollah issue.”
Pressured by Iran, Hezbollah, which is outside direct negotiations, will have agreed to a trucebut it will be difficult to accept being disarmed, as Tel Aviv demands, at least while Israeli forces occupy part of Lebanese territory.
