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Israel
says ceasefire does not include Lebanon
Israel
supports Donald Trump’s decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks,
but said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday.
The
office said Israel backed the US move, provided Tehran immediately opens the
strait of Hormuz and stops attacks against the United States, Israel and
countries in the region.
The
Pakistani prime minister, Shebaz Sharif, had previously said the ceasefire
extended over Lebanon.
Israeli
attacks on Lebanon since the start of the war have killed more than 1,400
people, including 126 children, and displaced more than 1 million, according to
Lebanese authorities. The renewed Israeli war on Lebanon was launched after
Hezbollah – the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group – fired rockets into
northern Israel in response to the killing of the former Iranian supreme
leader, Ali Khamenei, in joint US-Israeli airstrikes.
Israel
also said it supports US efforts to ensure Iran no longer poses a nuclear,
missile or “terror” threat to US, Israel and Iran’s Arab neighbours, adding
that Washington had told Israel it was committed to achieving their shared
goals in upcoming negotiations. Iran said on Wednesday negotiations with the US
would begin on Friday 10 April in Islamabad.
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