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2026-04-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israeli Security cabinet said to consider one-week Lebanon ceasefire amid US pressure
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[IsraelTimes] US claims it didn’t ask Israel to hold fire at Hezbollah, but would welcome truce as part of Lebanon talks; IDF chief says south Lebanon to be ‘kill zone’ for terrorists; 5 soldiers wounded in Hezbollah attack
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet convened on Wednesday night, reportedly to discuss a temporary ceasefire in Leb
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, amid growing expectations in Jerusalem that a truce may be unavoidable in the face of US pressure.
The network said that the US is pressing Israel to agree to a temporary one-week ceasefire in its fight against the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, hoping such a step will aid US-backed negotiations between Israel and Lebanon as well as Washington’s efforts to reach an agreement with Iran
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to end the war there.
The network said that the US is pressing Israel to agree to a temporary one-week ceasefire in its fight against the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, hoping such a step will aid US-backed negotiations between Israel and Lebanon as well as Washington’s efforts to reach an agreement with Iran to end the war there.
Sources in Hezbollah and the Lebanese government told Rooters that efforts at reaching a ceasefire were underway. The reports came a day after a historic Israeli-Lebanese meeting in Washington, and six weeks after Hezbollah began attacking Israel amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, drawing a heavy Israeli military response.
For its part, the US denied pressuring Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon.
"This is not something we have asked for, nor is it part of the peace negotiations with Iran, but the president would welcome the end of hostilities in Lebanon as part of a peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon," read a statement attributed to a senior US official that was sent to querying news hounds.
Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued on Wednesday. Five IDF soldiers were maimed, one seriously and four lightly, in a Hezbollah rocket attack in southern Lebanon, the military announced. The troops were taken to a hospital and their families were notified, the IDF added.
During a visit to southern Lebanon on Wednesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said he had approved new battle plans for both Lebanon and Iran and designated southern Lebanon, up to the Litani River, as a "killing zone for Hezbollah terrorists."
TEMPORARY TRUCE AIMED AT SPURRING IRAN, LEBANON PEACE TALKS
An Israeli security source told Channel 12 that while Washington seeks to de-escalate the fighting with Hezbollah, it is also sympathetic to Israeli concerns and therefore has proposed a temporary ceasefire lasting one week, preserving an option of returning to fighting if a more robust deal is not reached in that time.
An Israeli official rejected an Iranian claim that a ceasefire in Lebanon would take effect on Wednesday night.
"There is no ceasefire in Lebanon," a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel. "It’s in Lebanon and Israel’s mutual interest to dismantle Hezbollah."
ZAMIR: IDF HAS APPROVED PLANS FOR LEBANON AND IRAN
Israeli officials have said the IDF is establishing a demilitarized "security zone" in southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, until the threat of Hezbollah is removed. The buffer zone would be controlled with surveillance and firepower, as well as ground troops in areas deemed strategically necessary, the military has said.
Defense Minister Israel Katz has said he instructed the IDF to raze all buildings in the so-called "first line" of Lebanese villages close to the Israeli border, to ensure Hezbollah cannot use them to stage attacks on Israel.
On Wednesday, Zamir visited the 162nd Division in the Beit Lif area of Lebanon, near the border with Israel.
"Yesterday, I approved plans for the future, together with the General Staff Forum. We continue to conduct ongoing situation assessments and approve plans both in Lebanon and in Iran," he was quoted by the IDF as saying during the visit.
He praised the IDF’s strikes in Iran and said the military was at "a very high level of readiness."
"Air Force aircraft are armed and ready, and the targets are loaded on the systems. We know how to launch them for a powerful strike immediately," Zamir continued.
LEBANON APPEALS TO UN OVER ISRAELI ATTACKS
Lebanon’s health ministry said on Wednesday that Israel targeted paramedics working in the southern town of Mayfadun "three consecutive times," killing at least three of them and injuring six others, while one paramedic remains missing.
The ministry said three paramedic teams were attacked, one after another, while trying to rescue people maimed in an initial Israeli strike.
It decried the "flagrant crime, which reflects the Israeli enemy’s determination to prevent paramedics from performing their life-saving work by any means."
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the claims.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported separate Israeli strikes on Wednesday on two vehicles, both on the coastal highway around 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Beirut and outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds.
Lebanon’s foreign ministry, meanwhile, sent a formal complaint to the United Nations
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about Israel’s April 8 attacks. The Lebanese health ministry says the April 8 attacks killed 357 people, including 71 women and 30 children. Israel has said the strikes killed more than 250 Hezbollah operatives.
Overall, the war in Lebanon has killed more than 2,000 people there and forced 1.2 million from their homes, Lebanese authorities say. The IDF has said that it has killed some 1,700 Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since hostilities escalated.
In addition, 13 IDF soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon amid the fighting, two non-combatants were killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.
Israel will expand the buffer zone in Lebanon while continuing to strike Hezbollah forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday evening.
The buffer zone will also be stretched eastward, Netanyahu noted, so that Israel "can better help our Druze brothers in their time of need."
Netanyahu added that the current fighting in Lebanon was focused around the town of Bint Jbail, which he described as "the capital of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon," and added that the IDF is close to taking the town.
The ongoing talks with Lebanon, Netanyahu said, were currently taking place due to Israel's strength. The talks had two purposes: dismantling Hezbollah and establishing a lasting peace. "Peace through strength," Netanyahu noted.
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