Lebanese parliament speaker rejects Israeli demand to stay in 5 southern locations after Feb. 18

Lebanon’s powerful parliament speaker Nabih Berri says Beirut rejects Israel’s demand to remain in five locations in the south after the February 18 deadline for fully implementing a fragile ceasefire deal.

The United States, a key mediator, “informed me that the Israeli occupation will withdraw from villages it still occupies on February 18, but it will remain in five points,” Hezbollah-ally Berri says in a statement, adding: “I informed them in my name and on behalf of President General Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Judge Nawaf Salam of our absolute rejection” of this proposal.

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