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Netanyahu Shelled Houses in Lebanon, IDF Trundled Forward, Trump Announced a Ceasefire 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 Trump has announced a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon to be followed by a meeting between Israeli and Lebanese leaders next week, in a deal that it is hoped will bring progress toward a parallel peace agreement between the US and Iran. The ceasefire took effect at midnight on Thursday in Lebanon, where Israel has been conducting devastating airstrikes aimed at wiping out the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia. Netanyahu said the ceasefire offered an opportunity for a “historic peace agreement”, but insisted that the disarmament of Hezbollah remained a precondition. “We have an opportunity to make a historic peace agreement with Lebanon,” Netanyahu said in a televised speech, adding that Israel would maintain a 10km (6.2-mile) “security zone” along the border in southern Lebanon. Trump provided few other details, apart from the start time and length of the agreed truce. He later told reporters that “at the right time I would visit Lebanon”. The Lebanese army warned people displaced from southern Lebanon about returning home because of intermittent shelling that was reported after the ceasefire came into effect. The terms of the ceasefire, as provided by the US state department, prohibit Israel from offensive military actions in Lebanon. But they appear to leave more room for “self-defense,” including “against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks”. The war in Iran spilled over into Lebanon when Hezbollah launched missile attacks on 2 March against Israel in solidarity with Tehran, triggering a ferocious Israeli response, including a ground invasion into southern Lebanon. It came 15 months after the last major conflict between the two sides. Israel has declared its intention to occupy southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, about 18 miles from its border, and it has continued to fight Hezbollah there in recent days. Lebanon will probably demand the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces, which Israel has said was a non-starter in the past. #iran#israel#ceasefire#lebanon#trump 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸