{"id":3369,"date":"2026-06-30T19:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:11:17","slug":"netanyahu-visits-occupied-southern-lebanon-says-israel-wont-leave-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu visits occupied southern Lebanon, says Israel won&#8217;t leave yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>TEL AVIV, June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday visited \u200bLebanese territory occupied by the Israeli military, telling soldiers that Israel would not withdraw from the country&#8217;s south \u200cas long as Iran-backed Hezbollah continued to pose a threat.<\/div>\n<div>It was the first visit by Netanyahu to occupied Lebanese territory since the Israeli and Lebanese governments reached a security agreement last Friday mediated by the United States under which Israel will hand over two areas to Lebanon&#8217;s army.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Our insistence is \u200bthat we will not leave southern Lebanon until the threat is removed,&#8221; Netanyahu told troops, according to a statement \u200breleased by his office, referring to Hezbollah.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;And as long as Hezbollah remains here, armed and threatening \u2060us, we will remain here as well,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div>Netanyahu, who last publicly visited occupied Lebanese territory in April, was joined \u200bby Defence Minister Israel Katz and senior military officials.<\/div>\n<h2>&#8216;PILOT ZONES&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div>Under the U.S.-backed security agreement, Israeli forces are to withdraw from two &#8220;pilot zones&#8221; \u200band allow the Lebanese armed forces to take control of the areas. Few details have been made public on how the project will work in practice.<\/div>\n<div>Israel invaded Lebanon after it was fired upon by Hezbollah on March 2 in response to the U.S. and Israel attacking Iran on February \u200b28, sparking a regional war that killed thousands, mostly in Iran and Lebanon but also in the Gulf and in Israel.<\/div>\n<div>Israel&#8217;s \u200bmilitary has created a &#8220;buffer zone&#8221; about 10 km (6 miles) into Lebanon along the entire length of the Israeli border. Israeli officials say the zone \u200cis \u2060necessary to protect northern Israeli communities from attacks launched by Hezbollah.<\/div>\n<div>The military has forced the local Lebanese population from their homes and carried out raids of villages, destroying buildings. The military says it is destroying infrastructure, including underground tunnels, used by Hezbollah.<\/div>\n<div>Over 4,000 Lebanese have been killed and more than a million displaced by Israel&#8217;s campaign in Lebanon since March. At least 32 Israeli soldiers \u200band four Israeli civilians have \u200bbeen killed by Hezbollah, most \u2060of them in southern Lebanon.<\/div>\n<div>Netanyahu told Israeli troops on Tuesday that Hezbollah still had around 12,000 rockets and missiles in its arsenal and that the Israeli military had killed 9,000 militants in \u200bLebanon. He gave no timeframe for the latter figure but appeared to be referring to \u200bthe number killed \u2060since March 2.<\/div>\n<div>Hezbollah does not release figures on its war dead. Reuters reported on May 4 that several thousand Hezbollah fighters had been killed in the war.<\/div>\n<div>Iran has repeatedly demanded a ceasefire in Lebanon as part of its negotiations with the U.S. to end the war \u2060that began \u200bin February. Israel, which is not directly involved in those talks, opposes linking \u200bthe war in Lebanon to the war with Iran.<\/div>\n<div>Under U.S. pressure, Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah on June 19, although violence has persisted.<\/div>\n<div>Hezbollah has \u200brepeatedly objected to the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon and is not part of the talks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3367\">Iran war and AI boom drive wild ride on global markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3365\">Supreme Court takeaways: Wins for conservatives, some Trump limits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3363\">ECB considers lifting banks\u2019 minimum reserves to lessen own losses, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday visited \u200bLebanese territory occupied by the Israeli military, telling soldiers that Israel would not withdraw from the country&#8217;s south \u200cas long as Iran-backed Hezbollah continued to pose a threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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