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Israeli prime minister\u2019s office welcomes US decision to suspend attacks on Iran, but says the two-week truce does not apply to Lebanon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office has expressed support for the United States\u2019 decision to suspend strikes on Iran, but said the two-week truce will not extend to Israel\u2019s ongoing military operations in Lebanon.<\/p>\n In a statement on X on Wednesday, Netanyahu said Israel backed US President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to ensure \u201cIran no longer poses a nuclear, missile and terror threat to America, Israel, Iran\u2019s Arab neighbors and the world\u201d.<\/p>\n But the two-week ceasefire \u201cdoes not include Lebanon\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n Netanyahu\u2019s statement comes after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the US, Iran and their allies \u201chave agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere\u201d.<\/p>\n Sharif said the move was \u201ceffective immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n Lebanon was drawn into the US and Israel\u2019s war on Iran on March 2 after Tehran-aligned Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n Hezbollah said the attacks were in retaliation for Israel\u2019s killing of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war, on February 28, as well as Israel\u2019s near-daily violations of a ceasefire it agreed to in Lebanon in November 2024.<\/p>\n That truce was agreed after more than a year of cross-border fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters following Israel\u2019s launch of its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023.<\/p>\n According to Lebanese authorities, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 1,500 people since March 2 and displaced more than 1.2 million. The Israeli military has also launched an invasion of southern Lebanon and said it aims to seize more territory for what it calls a buffer zone.<\/p>\n There has been no immediate comment from Hezbollah or the Lebanese government on Netanyahu\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s Zeina Khodr, reporting from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, said Hezbollah\u2019s entry into the US-Israel war on Iran expanded the conflict and bogged Israel down on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n \u201cHezbollah\u2019s calculation is that it has more political leverage when it joins Iran in possible negotiations, because Hezbollah has been criticising the Lebanese government for failing to get Israel to agree to the terms of the last ceasefire back in 2024,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n In addition to the near-daily attacks, Israel had refused to withdraw from southern Lebanon or release detainees or allow displaced people to return to their homes, Khodr noted.<\/p>\n The question now, she said, is whether the Israel-Hezbollah front will be discussed in the upcoming negotiations between Iran and the US.<\/p>\n Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam \u201chimself says he believes that Iran has been running the military campaign that Hezbollah has launched in southern Lebanon and that\u2019s why the negotiations over the next two weeks will be critical and crucial for Lebanon,\u201d Khodr said.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause at the end of the day, Israel wants security guarantees. And that is something the Lebanese government, the Lebanese state cannot give,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency meanwhile said the Israeli military was continuing to carry out attacks on southern parts of the country.<\/p>\n Israeli forces bombed the town of Srifa in southern Tyre as well as a\u00a0car in Sadiqin on Wednesday morning, wounding several people, it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Israeli prime minister\u2019s office welcomes US decision to suspend attacks on Iran, but says the two-week truce does not apply to Lebanon. 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