Benjamin Netanyahu says he has instructed Israel's military to keep fighting at 'full force' and has not yet given his response to the proposed 21-day ceasefire deal - despite pressure from the US, UK and other allies.
Western diplomats will be frustrated and disappointed that Israel is seemingly putting its missiles where its mouth is in response to the US-led ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah, says our international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn.There was hope this morning that a 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah might be accepted by both sides, though developments throughout the day has seen that optimism turn to pessimism.
'The sense you get from the Israelis is they feel that they have the advantage, and they want to press home that advantage,' Waghorn says.'There's a lot of outrage in the Israeli media about the whole possibility of a 21-day ceasefire taking the momentum out of their offensive against Hezbollah. 'And now the Israeli government kind of putting missiles where their mouths are in terms of renewing their attacks on Lebanon, but also airstrikes in Beirut.
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