BREAKING: Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah tonight but there's an UPDATE

With the impending Trump presidency on January 20th, an agreement has been reached between Israel and Hezbollah for a ceasefire. The details will be announced tonight, but we know that it calls for a 60 day truce--you know, like when Donald Trump is sworn into office.

Naturally, Kamala Harris will take credit for the ceasefire after her return from vacation in Hawaii, and Joe Biden will announce it from where he may have wandered off to.

The deal was brokered by the United States and France, a country that has been proudly showing their anti-Semitic bona fides. 

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati is scheduled to deliver a statement welcoming the agreement, while Israel’s government is expected to give final approval during a cabinet meeting. 

Defense Minister Yisrael Katz has vowed to respond forcefully to any violations, warning Hezbollah against exploiting the truce to rebuild its military presence. In other words, if Hezbollah tries to regroup, especially by the border, Israel will react.

“We will act against any threat, anytime and anywhere,” Katz told UN Special Envoy for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert. 

The IDF will withdraw from southern Lebanon, thus allowing the Lebanese army to deploy 5,000 troops in the region. Hezbollah is also required to cease its armed activities south of the Litani River, aligning with the long-standing but weakly enforced UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Nobody should be surprised that the UN is not doing its job.

Defense Minister Katz warned that Israel would monitor the truce very closely. “Every house in southern Lebanon that is rebuilt and in which a terrorist base is established will be demolished,” Katz said. “Every rearming and regrouping by terrorists will be attacked.”

Responsibility for maintaining the ceasefire lies with the Lebanese army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). UNIFIL, which is as useless as a soft rubber crutch for its inability to enforce demilitarization, will work alongside the Lebanese government to implement the agreement. Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib naively expressed optimism, highlighting U.S. aid as critical for rebuilding infrastructure destroyed during recent Israeli strikes.

Israeli officials insist that strict oversight is essential to prevent arms smuggling and domestic weapons production by Hezbollah. “If you don’t do it, we will,” Katz warned UN officials.

As I am writing this, it has been reported that Hezbollah has already attacked Israeli locations, including central Israel. The time in Israel is about 0100 and there is three hours to go before the ceasefire is official. There have been no Israeli casualties reported at this time.

The Lebanese army has moved toward the southern part of the country, but the IDF will remain in Lebanon to monitor.

The world is watching to see what happens next--stay tuned.

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Israeli Navy Commandos capture Top Hezbollah Official

Captain Obvious Lookalike Winner: Imad Amhaz

In a daring Friday night raid, Israeli Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 commando unit apprehended a senior Hezbollah official, Imad Amhaz, in northern Lebanon, as confirmed by Israel’s military.

Imad Amhaz is described as a "considerable source of knowledge" regarding Hezbollah’s naval operations.

The operation involved a sea approach to a chalet on the coast of Batroun, south of Tripoli, executed with the assistance of German naval forces under the UNIFIL mandate.

Unit 504 of the Military Intelligence Directorate, specializing in HUMINT, is currently interrogating Amhaz.

The raid involved over 25 operatives targeting the cabin where Amhaz was found alone.

This capture was in retaliation to a recent Hezbollah rocket assault on Thursday, which resulted in seven fatalities and one serious injury.

The Hezbollah attack saw two missiles landing near Metula in Upper Galilee, resulting in the death of one Israeli farmer and four foreign workers, with one worker suffering severe injuries.

Later that day, another attack by Hezbollah near Kiryat Ata claimed two more lives:

"Paramedics provided medical treatment and CPR, following which a 30-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were pronounced dead, and a 71-year-old man was evacuated to Rambam Hospital due to minor shrapnel wounds," the emergency service detailed in their statement.

A preliminary US ceasefire proposal, as reported by Kan news, suggests Hezbollah retreat from Lebanon’s border with Israel, and for the IDF to pull back from Lebanon within a week. This proposal, led by Amos Hochstein, envisions a 60-day truce transitioning into a lasting ceasefire, emphasizing the enforcement of UN Resolution 1701: "the establishment between the Blue Line and the Litani River of an area free of any armed personnel, assets, and weapons other than those of the Government of Lebanon."

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Hezbollah removes a tent in Israeli territory, leaves up the second

Hezbollah set up an outpost in April north of the border on the Israel side of the UN-marked Blue Line in the Mount Dov region. They set up a pair of tents separating Israel from Lebanon across from an Israeli military base. It was reportedly armed by as many as eight armed terrorists.

 On Sunday night, the terror group removed one of the tents.

The move comes after Jerusalem reportedly sent a message to Hezbollah threatening to send them packing to meet their 72 virgins, and the outpost was removed.

Israeli officials suspect that the Iranian-backed terror group is responding in kind to avoid a conflict, the reports said.

On Saturday, the head of Hezbollah’s political wing in the Lebanese parliament told Israel to “be quiet” and rescind its demand for the terror group to remove the outpost.

Mohammad [did you guess this] Raad, leader of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, was quoted by Arab media as saying that “the enemy is demanding the removal of the two tents and prefers that the resistance do it because it doesn’t want to enter into an undesirable war.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly discussed the incursion during a briefing last month to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. And as a former Israeli Special Forces officer and war veteran, his balls are even bigger than Trump's.

The Israel Defense Forces said only that “the matter was known and being addressed by relevant parties,” reportedly UNIFIL, the United Nations [aka Yewennistan] peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.

UNIFIL was established in 1978 to confirm Israel’s military withdrawal from Lebanon. After the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, UNIFIL’s mandate was expanded to monitor the cessation of hostilities.

Israeli authorities have repeatedly accused the force of failing to contain Hezbollah, which has militarized huge swaths of Lebanon in contravention of international law.

According to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 conflict, the terrorist group is forbidden from operating anywhere near the frontier.

This past May, Israel's Foreign Ministry exposed Hezbollah by demonstrating that over the past year, they had constructed no less than 27 military posts along the Blue Line. These posts were built under the guise of being used by Green without Borders, a Hezbollah-affiliated organization that poses as an environmental NGO.

On March 15, Israel was infiltrated by a terrorist via Lebanon who planted a roadside bomb that severely wounded a motorist, Shareef ad-Din, 21, from the Israeli Arab town of Salem.

The IDF did not name who it believes dispatched the terrorist, but did not rule out Hezbollah.

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Israel's Danny Danon: 'We will bury Hezbollah in the rubble of Lebanon'

Israel's envoy to the useless United Nations, Danny Danon warned the UN "We will never let terror win," after evidence revealed the Lebanese army had a role in guarding Hezbollah's terror infrastructure.
By The Algemeiner and World Israel News Staff

The United Nations Security Council held a special session on Wednesday regarding Hezbollah’s violation of Resolution 1701, and specifically the terror scum's cross-border attack tunnels that were exposed and destroyed by the IDF as part of Israel’s Operation Northern Shield.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon showed the Security Council members an aerial photograph of a “private compound” in Kfar Kila, about 80 meters from the Blue Line, which separates Israel and Lebanon

This was the location from which an underground attack tunnel crossed into Israel, not far from a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) observation post, clearly showing that Lebanon is assisting Hezbollah in their religious quest to destroy the Jewish State and kill all the Jews they can.

UNIFIL was formed in 1978 and is supposed to be a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, but it's about as useful as a tissue paper parachute. Like most Islamic nations believe, Israel must be destroyed and Lebanon falls in that group.

Danon commented on the discovery, “Israel gave UNIFIL precise information about the location of the tunnel. After UNIFIL told the Lebanese army, [the UN force] was then stopped when it tried to reach the area. Sources within the Lebanese army informed Hezbollah about the information, which enabled the terrorist organization to conceal the tunnel’s operations and thwart Israel’s defensive actions.”

Danon added: “Lebanese army officials are working for Hezbollah, while UNIFIL is not working to fulfill its mandate in the region in the necessary manner.

“Let me be abundantly clear — Hezbollah’s activities are a flagrant and unacceptable violation of Security Council Resolution 1701 and the ‘Blue Line.’ They also violate the UN Charter and international law.”

Danon went on to explain, “Hezbollah has built a terror base inside a civilian population, with its end on the Israeli side of the border, all financed by Iran. This not only a clear violation of Resolution 1701, but Hezbollah also uses Lebanese civilians as human shields.”

“If Hezbollah will have the arrogance to attack Israel, we will bury it in the rubble of Lebanon,” Danon warned. “We will never let terror win.”

“The international community must condemn Hezbollah in the strongest terms and stand by Israel’s self-defensive measures,” he continued. “It is the expectation that Lebanon will eliminate these terror tunnels and prevent the building of future attack tunnels that threaten Israel.”

Danon spoke after his Lebanese counterpart, Amal Mudallali, condemned Israel in her own remarks to the council over what she described as a continuing array of encroachments on her country’s sovereignty, to which she received four out of four Pinocchios and a pipe to go along with her dream.

Addressing Mudallali directly, Danon accused her of representing “a government that allows Iran and its proxies to turn Lebanon into a launching pad for terror.”

“If Hezbollah will have the arrogance to attack Israel, we will bury it in the rubble of Lebanon,” Danon warned. “We will never let terror win.”

Also speaking at the gathering, Rodney Hunter — the political coordinator of the US Mission to the UN — said in support of Israel:

“The United States strongly supports Israel’s efforts to defend its sovereignty and unconditionally affirms Israel’s right to self-defense. We call on President Michel Aoun and the Lebanese government to undertake all possible efforts to halt Hezbollah’s illicit tunneling into Israel and to ensure that there is no escalation of tensions or violence. This includes President Aoun directing the Lebanese Armed Forces to act promptly to investigate the suspected starting points of the tunnels.”

Hunter also emphasized that UNIFIL must “take all necessary measures to ensure that its area of operations is not used for hostile activities and to ensure that these tunnels do not pose a threat to peace and security.” Toward that end, he said that UNIFIL needed to be “provided all possible relevant information regarding, and full access to, the suspected tunnel locations in southern Lebanon.”

Hunter added, “we also call on Iran and its agents to stop their aggressive behavior and provocation in the region, which pose an unacceptable threat to Israeli and regional security.”

Prior to Wednesday’s Security Council meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Hezbollah is a tool of Iran. Both are committed to our destruction. They use criminal methods, illegal methods, war criminal methods, commit war crimes against our civilians, and they commit war crimes against Lebanon’s civilians. The Lebanese government, which should be the first to challenge this and to protest this, is doing nothing at best and colluding at worst. That’s the truth. That has to be exposed, condemned and acted against. And there is no way to do that with a blanket of silence.”

Sadly, Netanyahu is correct.

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Netanyahu: Israel will deliver 'unimaginable blows' if Hezbollah attacks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the IDF operation to expose and destroy cross-border attack tunnels built by Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group, and warned them that Israel is "prepared from all sides" to confront them.

“If Hezbollah makes a big mistake and decides in any way to harm us or to resist the operation we are conducting, it will be dealt unimaginable blows,” Netanyahu said.

The prime minister added, “Hezbollah thought that it could dig unhindered. We knew, we planned, and it did not leak. We maintained secrecy; we planned carefully. We are carrying out exactly what we planned but we are ready for the unexpected. There is great firepower here. We are ready for it and are prepared for it from all sides.”

Netanyahu also made it crystal clear that Operation Northern Shield  “will continue as long as necessary, until we completely deny Hezbollah the tunnels."

On Tuesday, Lebanon’s president, Michel Aoun, said that Israel’s operation  won’t endanger the calm along the frontier, adding that his country takes the issue seriously.

The same day, however, the IDF placed explosives in a third Hezbollah tunnel, warning the group’s terrorists not to enter it.

Why the IDF is being so nice to Hezbollah is beyond comprehension.

The Useless United Nations peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) that patrols the area, confirmed the presence of two previous tunnels along the border. The mission’s head, Maj. Stefano Del Col, said he met with Aoun and Lebanon’s parliament speaker Tuesday and informed them that UNIFIL experts have inspected two tunnels near Metulla, along the border north of Israel. Then they did nothing else to bring peace.

“This is a serious matter and UNIFIL is working in close coordination with the parties both at the technical level as well as at the leadership level to ensure that all related facts are objectively determined and diligently addressed in line with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701,” Del Col said in a statement.

Aoun, a Hezbollah ally, said that Lebanon is prepared to address the issue after assessing a full report on the situation.

Israel needs to continue destroying every single tunnel they find.

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