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By Staff Reporter
- Celebrations have been reported in Lebanon, where a 10-day ceasefire has been announced to allow for negotiations between Israeli and Lebanese officials on a permanent security and peace agreement between the two countries, the US State Department said.
- Vehicles have been reported streaming south as people forcibly displaced by Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon return home.
- United States President Donald Trump has again said that a deal to end the war on Iran is “very close”, adding that talks may resume with Tehran in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad as early as this weekend.
- Iran’s Foreign Ministry has welcomed news of the ceasefire in Lebanon, according to Iranian state media, framing the truce as part of a broader agreement with the US to pause the regional conflict.
- A Hezbollah official tells Al Jazeera Arabic that the group will approach the ceasefire with “caution and vigilance”.
- Israeli forces pounded southern Lebanon in the hours leading up to the implementation of the ceasefire on Thursday night, killing three people in a village in the Sidon district and eight people in the Zahrani area, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
