Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled that Israel’s truce with Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, due to expire this weekend, will be extended.

The Israeli forces will remain in southern Lebanon beyond the 60-day deadline for withdrawal set out in the ceasefire deal with the militant group Hezbollah. This was disclosed by the office of the Israeli Prime Minister,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington as early as next week.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be flying high. Israel’s enemies across the region have been badly weakened during 15 months of war.

US President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be the first foreign leader welcomed to the White House during his second term. Trump is expected to discuss his new plan to relocate Gazans to Jordan and Egypt.

In a speech as Israel awaited the release of the first hostages on Saturday, Mr Netanyahu said both president Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the president-elect, had promised him Israel had the right to resume the fighting “in new ways and with very great power” if Hamas violated the deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon by this weekend’s deadline set in its ceasefire with Hezbollah

Israel began allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return on Monday to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas.

Israel let tens of thousands of Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas​, under terms of a fragile ceasefire​.

The unusual move comes after relatives of Israeli hostages protested against plans for minister Chikli to speak at a holocaust memorial event in the European Parliament. View on euronews

On Saturday, Trump ordered the U.S. to resume shipments of the 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. In May, Biden halted the shipments, claiming at the time that the weapons were being used in areas with high concentrations of civilians, leading to civilian deaths.