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Middle East crisis live: Israel to continue ground operation in southern Lebanon despite agreed ceasefire

Israel Katz in Jerusalem in November 2024.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4d13d32d449848563be2f4af921a0b69c39b075b/0_0_5500_3667/master/5500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Israel Katz in Jerusalem in November

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Israel Katz, said Israel intends to create a buffer zone around the Litani area of [Lebanon

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Israel Katz](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4d13d32d449848563be2f4af921a0b69c39b075b/1703_141_1717_2441/master/1717.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, says his country’s armed

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Israel Katz, said Israel was “prepared to resume the war” and was awaiting a green

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Israel Katz said Israel would continue its military operations in Lebanon regardless. The latest agreement

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Israel Katz said. Israel’s attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah

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Israel Katz later [declared](/news/2025/12/23/israel-will-never-fully-withdraw-from-gaza-defence-minister-says) Israel would “never leave Gaza”, promising to establish military-agricultural

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Israel Katz said on Thursday his country is awaiting the green light from Trump to return

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Israel Katz [said on Thursday](/news/2026/4/23/iran-dismisses-trumps-claim-of-leadership-rift-says-nation-is-one-soul) that his country is awaiting the green light from

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Israel Katz, said they had given instructions to strike “terrorist targets” in the southern suburbs

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Israel Katz retorted that defiance would bring catastrophic consequences. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem asserted in a statement

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Israel Katz said at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers of the 1982 war with

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Israel Katz issued a rare joint statement, boasting that the killing was carried out under

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Israel Katz, said the military will continue its ground operations there, justhours after Israel and Lebanon

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Israel Katz said that troops would continue operations against the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon