Trump says ceasefire between Israel-Lebanon to be extended by three weeks
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United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by three weeks after fresh discussions between officials of the two countries in Washington.
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An earlier agreement for a 10-day ceasefire that had been struck on April 17 was set to expire on Sunday. The ceasefire aims to end more than seven weeks of fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah amid the war in West Asia.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, the US president said that the two countries have “agreed to an additional three weeks of, I guess, no firing – ceasefire – no more firing…We hope that happens. It is not going to happen between them, but we still have Hezbollah to think about.”
Trump added that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House in the coming weeks. “They do have Hezbollah to think about,” he said. “We are going to be working with Lebanon to get things straightened out in that country.”
He added: “I think it will be a wonderful thing to get this worked out simultaneously with what we are doing in Iran.”
During the interaction, Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter praised Trump for his role in the...