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Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire agreement as Israeli strikes kill 4 in Lebanon 33%
By BASSEM MROUE0% JON GAMBRELL54% SAM METZ0%
6/4/2026, 12:27:56 PM
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Hezbollah on Thursday rejected the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese government, and the militant group demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as more fighting there hampered efforts to end the Iran war.
The Hezbollah announcement came as Israeli strikes killed at least four people, according to local authorities, and a U.N. peacekeeper was killed in the crossfire.
An Israeli soldier was also killed in combat in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem, in a written statement read on TV, called the negotiations “absurd, humiliating and insulting.”
He said the agreement’s demand that Hezbollah fighters leave southern Lebanon under fire would mean “surrender, defeat and achieving the enemy’s goals.”
“What we are concerned about is an end to the aggression, ceasefire and Israel’s withdrawal,” he said, underscoring that Hezbollah has not made any commitment to stop fighting.
“So long as our villages are not safe and are being bombed and destroyed and our people are killed,” he said, northern Israel “will not be safe.”
Following Kassem’s statement, drone alert sirens sounded in several border communities in northern Israel, including Shlomi, a town where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several ministers had been meeting with local officials, his office said.
Israeli media reported that Netanyahu left a short time before the alerts sounded.
The Israeli military later said the sirens were triggered by attempts to intercept several drones that hit near soldiers in southern Lebanon.
No injuries were reported.
Lt.
Gen.
Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, acknowledged Thursday that the ongoing war was straining northern Israeli towns living under the threat of Hezbollah fire.
He said Israel’s operations in Iran and Lebanon had “created a new security reality,” by weakening Iran and Hezbollah “to an unprecedented degree.”
The Lebanese news agency reported airstrikes in the south and said a strike on the village of Sohmor in the Bekaa Valley, in eastern Lebanon, killed three people and wounded others.
Israel has warned people not to go into parts of southern Lebanon where it says it is striking Hezbollah facilities.
Hezbollah resumed rocket fire days after Israel and the United States launched their surprise Feb. 28 attack on Iran, which backs Hezbollah.
Before then, Israel had regularly carried out strikes in Lebanon against what it said were militant targets, often killing civilians, despite an earlier truce reached in 2024.
After Hezbollah’s rocket and drone attacks resumed, Israeli troops seized around a fifth of Lebanon, pushing further into the country’s south than at any time since the end of Israel’s 1982-2000 occupation.
In the southern city of Sidon, residents reacted to Wednesday’s ceasefire announcement with skepticism, saying previous agreements had failed to stop the violence.
“Every few days a ceasefire is announced, but people keep getting killed,” said Mayada Hijazi.
“It’s all talk and no action,” said Salah Nassab.
“We keep going back to our homes, and then we get displaced again, back and forth.
We’re very tired.”
More than 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon, and over 1.2 million have been displaced.
The fighting has killed at least 28 Israeli soldiers and three civilians.
The latest declared ceasefire came about through U.S.-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon’s government, which accuses Hezbollah of dragging the country into war and had made efforts to disarm it before the latest hostilities.
The ceasefire agreement calls for Lebanon’s armed forces to take control of security zones in Lebanon from which the militants would be banned.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday called the new agreement “the last chance to enter a final and comprehensive ceasefire.”
He said Lebanon was ready to implement the deal once he receives responses from relevant factions in Lebanon, including Hezbollah.
The United States — and Trump himself — would determine how and when the deal is implemented, Aoun told journalists.
The agreement terms Hezbollah “an enemy” of Israel, the U.S. and Lebanon and calls for dismantling it.
The government has promised to do so in the past but does not have the capabilities to disarm Hezbollah by force.
Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Metz from Ramallah, West Bank.
Associated Press writers Malak Harb and Sarah El Deeb in Beirut; Natalie Melzer in Tel Aviv, Israel; and Edith M.
Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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