00:00The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has been extended by three weeks.
00:05However, Jad Fayyad of Lebanon's Anahar warns that talks alone
00:08will not deliver lasting peace without the disarmament of Iran-backed Hezbollah.
00:16It appears that Donald Trump is applying some pressure on Netanyahu to extend this ceasefire
00:23because he is trying to give some chances to the Iranian-American negotiations and talks
00:28that might be held in the upcoming weeks. So they are trying to de-escalate the war in Lebanon.
00:35Yesterday, Thursday, there were new negotiations and new talks between
00:39both parties and Donald Trump was there in those talks.
00:46This is a very important point. Those talks or those negotiations won't change anything.
00:52Israelis are trying to just apply some additional political pressure over Hezbollah on the first
00:59side. On the other side, the Lebanese authorities need or want a long-term peace. But until now,
01:07the situation isn't in the Lebanese authorities' hands. It's in Hezbollah. They have the missiles,
01:14and they have the drones, and they have the military forces in the south. So they can hit any time
01:20any Israeli targets. Even the ceasefire that is now happening, it is because of the complicated
01:27and complex of the Saudi-Iranian-American-Israeli situation. And it's not because there are direct
01:34talks between Lebanon and Israel. In southern Lebanon, Jad highlights that the ceasefire is far
01:40from holding on the ground. The Israelis are damaging and destroying some homes, and they are
01:47targeting some Hezbollah targets, and even some civilians. And a journalist just died two days ago
01:54because of the Israeli troops and the Israeli bombs. On the other side, Hezbollah is also
02:02stating that they are firing some missiles and some drones. So it is not a fully applied ceasefire.
02:10Israel is trying to do a buffer zone, a security zone in the south of Lebanon. Around 10 to 12
02:19kilometers in the Lebanese borders, the Israeli troops are now located, and they are damaging,
02:25destroying every house or everything just to make sure that there is no life in the south.
02:33In the 2024 ceasefire deal and in the 2026 ceasefire deal, there is something that says Israel can
02:41or have the right to move against any potential targets in Lebanon. So this is an important point.
02:50The Israelis are trying to guarantee in every ceasefire that they have the ability or they have the
02:54freedom in order to move and to target some targets in Lebanon if they saw that it is potentially a
03:03potential threat to Israel.
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