Israeli officials reject new peace deal, say it 'does not bind' Israel
Amid a series of fresh Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon, senior Israeli officials slammed the newly announced US-Iran agreement, signalling that Israel may reject the terms of the deal.
Israel is not a partner to the new agreement, which "does not bind us in any way," far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir wrote on X.
Israel is not a “subordinate of the United States,” he said.
“We must not compromise on anything less than the dismantling of Hezbollah, we must not withdraw from any territory that our fighters have captured and cleared of terror infrastructure, we must not return to a situation where thousands of terrorists sit on the fences of northern settlements, and certainly we must not remain silent for a moment in the face of fire directed at the State of Israel.”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the agreement is "bad for Israel and the entire free world".
"We will have to continue the campaign to topple the regime ourselves and in creative ways, and ensure that Iran will never have nuclear weapons," Smotrich wrote on X.
Defence Minister Israel Katz also stated that Israel is not going to withdraw from territory it has seized in Lebanon, and it will retaliate “if Iran attacks it over events in Lebanon”.