00:00What conditions would allow Israel to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon?
00:05And we are also hearing today that the Lebanese army says Israeli strike in the south has killed two, including
00:13a soldier.
00:16First of all, we, I repeat it here, we don't have any territorial ambitions in Lebanon.
00:25As you can recall, Israel fully withdrew from Lebanon 26 years ago.
00:32But decades afterwards, we still have Hezbollah, which is a terrorist state within the Lebanese state, enforcing fighting from the
00:44territory of Lebanon.
00:46Just to give you the numbers, from the beginning of this war, from March the 2nd, we had more than
00:5510,000 rockets, missiles and drones launched from Lebanon to Israel.
01:03No country in the world will suffer that or tolerate that or think it is good to live with a
01:12pistol, which is all the time directed to its head.
01:18And of course, we cannot tolerate that.
01:21And this is actually a mutual problem for us and for Lebanese.
01:25So, for your question, when we will see Hezbollah dismantled and other terror fractions like Palestinian terror fractions, like Islamic
01:36Jihad, for example, they are also operating from Lebanon.
01:40When they don't exist and there is a real rule of the government of Lebanon and the armed forces are
01:48only the armed forces of the state of Lebanon, we will not have any problem.
01:52Thank you very much.
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