Trump posts that just now he has negotiated a cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah"
"I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back. Likewise, through highly placed Representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
UN Security Council members express support for Lebanon amid Israeli invasion
This meeting has just concluded in the last few minutes in the UN Security Council.
It was a long meeting and the vast majority of council members, one after another, condemned Israel’s incursion and occupation in Lebanon and its violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
We even heard that from a top UN political affairs official, an assistant secretary-general, saying that Israel’s actions must stop, and Lebanon saying that it is also a clear violation of UN Security Council’s Resolution 1701.
Death toll from Israel's attacks on Lebanon since March has reached 3,433, with 10,395 injured, says Health Ministry.
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UN experts warn against 'surging Israeli settler terror'
A team of UN experts has issued a “stark warning about surging Israeli settler terror” in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem and “the existential risk it poses to Palestinian communities’ presence on the land”.
The group of 14, including the UN’s special rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, cited a sharp increase in the number of Palestinian casualties in settler attacks this year, saying at least 13 had been killed and close to 500 injured in five months amid the “settler brutality”.
The experts said in a statement:
Relentless attacks by the settler-colonial movement, carried out with the support and acquiescence of the Israeli State, have become a daily terror in Palestinian lives, sowing fear, uncertainty and profound insecurity that inevitably compels the forcible displacement of the indigenous population.
The escalating violence, carried out with full impunity, serves as an instrument of coercion in the hands of the occupying power, facilitating ethnic cleansing.”
The recent escalation of regional hostilities had drawn international attention away from the realities in the occupied territories, the UN team said, and the “displacement of people has slipped further from sight”.
The US president said Benjamin Netanyahu had promised not to send troops to Beirut, while Hezbollah had agreed that ‘all shooting will stop’
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