“We are fed up and we want to live in peace,” Aoun said, adding “(Lebanese people) deserve to live in peace and in dignity, they deserve not seeing their homes being destroyed every five to 10 years.”

Since its founding in the 1980s, Hezbollah has gone to war with Israel multiple times. This year, the group fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for a joint US-Israeli assault on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and much of his senior military command. Israel’s aggressive response has killed more than 3,500 Lebanese and displaced nearly a fifth of the population.

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    2 days ago

    Wasn’t the second highest fought over agreement from Iran the demand for Israel to also stand down, especially against Lebanon?

    Aside from nukes, they want Trump to pacify Israel because they’re inherently connected regardless of which direction the ownership is.

    Lebanon otherwise has no leverage in the matter. Israel would still be happy if Iran and the US made a deal by themselves bevause they could just continue as is.