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Netanyahu Vows to Enforce Ceasefire with an “Iron Fist”

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by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a rare government meeting in the northern city of Nahariya on Tuesday, stating, “to deliver a clear message to the North: We’re committed to the North.” He added, “We are enforcing the ceasefire and, with an iron fist, acting against any violation – minor or serious.”

Netanyahu said Israel “will not return to the situation of October 6 – neither drip by drip, nor in zigzags,” referring to the day before Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, when 1,200 people were killed and roughly 250 were taken captive as hostages.

Earlier today, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that if the recently implemented ceasefire with Hezbollah collapses, Lebanon will no longer be exempt from blame for attacks.

As ceasefire mediators France and the US urged both Jerusalem and Beirut to control the fighting and prevent the deal from collapsing, an Israeli airstrike near Damascus International Airport in Syria killed a senior Hezbollah officer.

“We will work with all our might to enforce all the understandings of the ceasefire agreement, and we show maximum response and zero tolerance,” Katz said during a visit to the northern border areas, where 60,000 residents were evacuated last October when Hezbollah began cross-border fire in support of Hamas amid the Palestinian terror group’s war with Israel.

Katz said that Lebanon must “authorize the Lebanese army to enforce their part, to keep Hezbollah away beyond the Litani [River] and to dismantle all the infrastructure.”

“If they don’t do it and this whole agreement collapses, then the reality will be very clear. First of all, if we return to war, we will act strongly, we will go deeper, and the most important thing they need to know is that there will no longer be immunity for the state of Lebanon,” Katz emphasized.

The 60-day Israeli-Lebanon ceasefire, brokered by France and the US and signed on November 27, 2024, seeks to reduce tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border, particularly between Israel and Hezbollah, after intense cross-border clashes. Shortly after the ceasefire agreement, insurgent groups in Syria launched a major offensive, seizing Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city.

Copyright 1999-2024 Worthy News. This article was originally published on Worthy News and was reproduced with permission.


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