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🇱🇧 Lebanon Gets a Ten-Day Truce Israel has agreed to a 10-day cease-fire in Lebanon, but the fine print is already causing trouble. Netanyahu says the fighting against Hezbollah will pause, while Israeli troops stay in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, for its part, is warning that any truce that leaves Israel room to move is not much of a truce at all. This is not a breakthrough. It is a release valve. Trump is presenting the pause as part of a broader push to end the U.S.-Iran war, but his administration is still threatening Iran with strikes on energy sites if the talks fail. So the region gets a cease-fire headline and an open-ended threat in the same news cycle. The government in Beirut does not really control Hezbollah, and that is why these deals keep arriving with loopholes you could drive a truck through. Lebanon welcomes the pause, which is understandable after more than 2,100 deaths and over a million displaced, but a short truce is not the same thing as a settlement. Israel keeps territory. Hezbollah keeps its red lines. Trump keeps talking like the war is almost over. A ten-day freeze may buy time, but it will not survive the next serious incident. #lebanon#israel#hezbollah#trump#iran#war#middleeast 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸