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Blinken says Lebanon ceasefire “holds” and everyone “still wants it”

December 5th 2024 , , , ,
Antony Blinken Photo: US Department of State/Chuck Kennedy via Flickr

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the ceasefire in Lebanon “is holding” as both Israel and the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah “still want it.”

“The ceasefire remains in place and we are using the mechanism that was put in place when concerns arise about any reported violations,” Blinken said at a news conference following a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.

The head of US diplomacy said the reason for maintaining the ceasefire was “fundamentally because both parties, namely Israel and Hezbollah through the Lebanese government, wanted and continue to want the ceasefire.”

Blinken said, in this regard, that any ceasefire, if it is to hold, “needs to have something in place to verify and address any concerns or allegations of violations.”

The ceasefire in Lebanon is the product, he said, of “intense and sustained diplomacy to achieve it.”

“That is the important thing about what we were able to establish, working with France. You have a monitoring mechanism. If there are concerns that one side or the other is violating the ceasefire, it comes to us and in one way or another, we involve the parties. That is exactly what has happened,” he said.

Lebanon is still awaiting the implementation of the truce between the Israel Defense Forces and the pro-Iranian Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah after repeated violations of the ceasefire that have left several dead. EFE and Aurora

2 thoughts on “Blinken says Lebanon ceasefire “holds” and everyone “still wants it””
  1. The Lebanese people urgently need to take control of their country and neutralize those who have caused so much harm: Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iranian ayatollahs and corrupt politicians who deserve to be eliminated. As long as all these heartless people are not thrown overboard by the Lebanese people, they will continue to suffer the same problem.

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