Hezbollah rejects truce talks as Israel presses Lebanon strikes

BEIRUT — Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said negotiations with Israel under fire would amount to “surrender”, as the Iran-backed group launched attacks and Israel said it was expanding a “buffer zone” inside Lebanon. Israel, which occupied southern Lebanon for around two decades until 2000, has kept up strikes on its northern neighbour and sent ground troops to take control of a strip up to the Litani River, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military had already “created a genuine security zone” and was now expending it, pushing deeper into Lebanon. READ: […]... Keep on reading: Hezbollah rejects truce talks as Israel presses Lebanon strikes

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