New York: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected a push led by its key backer the United States for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon and vowed the military would maintain its bombardment of Hezbollah targets in indefinitely.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who arrived in New York to address the annual United Nations General Assembly, said airstrikes will continue until all Israel’s objectives have been achieved.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement comes even as an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs killed the head of Hezbollah’s drone unit Mohammad Hussein Srour.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah confirmed in a statement that the strike killed Mohammad Hussein Srour, born in 1973.
Israel’s “policy is clear,” Benjamin Netanyahu said. “We are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force. And we will not stop until we reach all our goals, chief among them the return of the residents of the north securely to their homes.”
Just before his comments, the Israeli military said it killed a Hezbollah drone commander, Mohammad Hussein Srour, in an airstrike in the suburbs of Beirut.
“There will be no cease-fire,” foreign minister Israel Katz posted earlier on X, while defence minister Yoav Gallant said the aim of the armed forces is to keep “throwing Hezbollah off balance and deepening their loss.”
