Israel claims that the ceasefire agreement is not implemented fairly quickly.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah demanded that the Israeli forces are completing their withdrawal from the southern country in accordance with the terms of the cease-fire agreement agreed by both parties, the Israeli government having declared that the agreement was not put implemented fairly quickly.
Israel and the group aligned with Iran agreed in November by a cease-fire negotiated by France and the United States, ending more than a year of fighting.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Israeli forces were to withdraw from Lebanon and the Hezbollah forces had to withdraw from southern Lebanon over a period of 60 days ending on Monday.
“There have been positive movements where the Lebanese army and the Finul took the place of the forces of Hezbollah, as stipulated in the agreement,” the Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told journalists on Thursday, Reference to the United Nations Peace Soldiers in Lebanon.
“We have also clearly indicated that these movements have not been fast enough and that there is still a lot of work to do,” he said, saying that Israel wanted the agreement to continue.
Menting did not answer questions directly on the question of whether Israel had asked for an extension of the agreement or if the Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon after the period of 60 days.
In a report from Beirut, Lebanon in Lebanon, Zeina Khodr of Tel Aviv Tribune said that the Israeli Ambassador to the United States said that Israel was in talks with the administration of President Donald Trump to convince the United States to extend the period of at least a month.
“Israeli officials speak of staying in Lebanon, which would constitute a violation of the cease-fire agreement which provides for a withdrawal by January 26,” she said.
“Hezbollah suggests that it will resume military action. He says that if the Israeli soldiers remain, they will constitute a force of occupation and there will be “resistance”, “noted Khodr.
“The question of whether these threats are serious-since Hezbollah was seriously weakened during the War of Israel-is questionable,” she added.
Hezbollah said Thursday that Israel should withdraw completely from Lebanon when the 60-day period provided for by the cease-fire agreement comes to an end and warned that any rupture of the agreement would not be accepted .
“We need a total withdrawal from the Israeli army,” French president Emmanuel Macron said at the start of the month, speaking alongside Lebanese president Joseph Aoun in Beirut.
The Lebanese government has also told American mediators that Israel’s inability to withdraw in time could complicate the deployment of the Lebanese army, which would bring diplomatic efforts and the optimistic atmosphere that reigns in Lebanon Since the Aoun election to the presidency on January 9.
Ali Fayyad, a Hezbollah deputy, said on January 20 that if Israel did not withdraw, this would place all Lebanese in a new phase of “confrontation with the Israeli occupation by all the possible means and tools to hunt it from our earth “.
