The United States and Iran may have finalized a deal to end the war, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu After US President Donald Trump announced the deal, Israeli media said Israel had rejected the terms involving Lebanon.Click here for live updatesOn February 28, Israel and the United States launched an attack on Iran, triggering a conflict in the Middle East. Lebanon was embroiled in the conflict after the Tehran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah assassinated then-Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the first day of the operation.ALSO READ | Trump declared that “the US-Iran peace agreement is now complete”; the signing will be held in Switzerland on June 19according to Malev websiteNetanyahu left Sunday’s cabinet meeting to speak with Trump, who informed him of a signing ceremony scheduled for Friday in Switzerland.Netanyahu reportedly told Trump during the call that Israel does not consider itself bound by the Lebanese provisions of the Washington-Tehran deal.The website quoted him as saying: “The IDF will not withdraw from Lebanon and will remain in the positions it currently occupies and will continue to take actions to defeat Hezbollah threats, including destroying terrorist infrastructure and responding to any attacks against Israel.”The two leaders also discussed an IDF attack in the Lebanese capital Beirut that day that delayed the deal before it was announced.Although Trump brokered an Israel-Lebanon truce while upholding Israel’s right to self-defense, both Hezbollah and Israel continue to violate the ceasefire.Iran has also made any potential truce conditional on a complete cessation of hostilities against Lebanon.Trump has repeatedly criticized Netanyahu over Israeli attacks on Lebanon, including using strong language to describe the latest attack by the Israel Defense Forces in Beirut.ALSO READ | ‘He has no judgment’: Trump ‘angry’ with Netanyahu over Israeli attack on Lebanon ‘an hour before deal’“This is terrible – I can’t believe it. It was an hour before we were supposed to sign the deal. Why did Bibi have to attack? I was so angry. I let him know. He had no fucking judgment. I let him know,” the US leader told reporters hours before announcing the deal, referring to the Israeli prime minister’s nickname.
