Hezbollah rejected the US-backed deal, which sets no timetable for Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because a shaky ceasefire that breaks could reignite the highest-attention war in the Middle East, reopen famine conditions for millions in Gaza, and pull in Hezbollah and Red Sea shipping through linked escalation.
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"But Hezbollah has rejected the deal, which does not set out a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal."
"Hezbollah's secretary-general, Naim Qassem, said that the agreement is a "concession over Lebanon's sovereignty," stressing that conditioning Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon on the disarmament of Hezbollah "crosses all red lines""
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