Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday pushed back vehemently against reports of an impending ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“There will be no ceasefire in the north,” Katz wrote in a post to X.
“We will continue to fight against the Hezbollah terrorist organization with all our strength until victory and the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes,” he added.
Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also denied the reports, calling them “incorrect.”
“This is an American-French proposal that the prime minister has not even responded to,” his office said, while Netanayhu was en route to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly.
“The report of an alleged instruction to moderate the fighting in the north is also contrary to the truth,” the statement continued. “The prime minister has instructed the IDF to continue the fighting with full force and according to the plans presented to him,” his office said.
The United States, Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar called jointly on Wednesday night for an “immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement.”
