{"id":2610813,"date":"2026-06-04T19:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-lebanon-ceasefire-could-undermine-hezbollah-and-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:09:08","slug":"israel-lebanon-ceasefire-could-undermine-hezbollah-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-lebanon-ceasefire-could-undermine-hezbollah-and-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Lebanon ceasefire could undermine Hezbollah and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-lebanon-ceasefire-could-undermine-hezbollah-and-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2610813&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Despite a U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement Israel signed with Lebanon a day earlier, Israel adn Hezbollah are still exchanging strikes. Teh article says Israel is beginning efforts to withdraw troops from the Debbine area and support \u201cpilot zones\u201d in southern lebanon where the Lebanese army would take operational control-aimed at keeping Hezbollah out of the process and strengthening state authority.<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire is described as contradictory: it is presented as a step toward lasting peace but still allows Israeli operations,and it is contingent on Hezbollah stopping fire and leaving positions south of the Litani River while being excluded from negotiations. Hezbollah leaders reject the deal, warning that resistance will continue as long as Israel\u2019s occupation exists.<\/p>\n<p>Experts quoted argue the arrangement is less a true ceasefire than a bilateral de-escalation campaign (or interim strategy) designed to undermine Hezbollah and enable more direct, state-to-state bargaining. The article also links the unfolding diplomatic pressure to broader U.S.-Iran negotiations: it suggests Iran has demanded a Lebanon ceasefire for talks involving the Strait of Hormuz,and that Trump persuaded Netanyahu to avoid a march on Beirut to prevent undermining those prospects.<\/p>\n<p>while some expect the Lebanese army\u2019s control of pilot zones could strengthen the central government and help displaced civilians return, the article notes major doubts about whether the Lebanese forces can neutralize Hezbollah\u2019s weapons and structure-given the likelihood of renewed fighting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel and Hezbollah are already trading strikes despite the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4594597\/israel-lebanon-new-ceasefire-hezbollah-cooperation-uncertain\/\">Israeli government signing a ceasefire with Lebanon<\/a> just a day ago, causing many to question the purpose of the \u201clast chance\u201d agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"219\">Israel<\/a> is beginning efforts to move troops out of the Debbine area in southern Lebanon and working to prop up \u201cpilot zones\u201d where the Lebanese military is expected to take operational control. It is unclear what exactly either government is envisioning, but experts say the main purpose is likely to bolster state-to-state solidarity and ice <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hezbollah\/\">Hezbollah<\/a> out of the conversation entirely.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4595781\/iaea-iran-oversight-nuclear-program\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>IAEA\u2019s inability to enter Iran blocks oversight of nuclear program<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4594597\/israel-lebanon-new-ceasefire-hezbollah-cooperation-uncertain\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Israel and Lebanon announce a new ceasefire, but Hezbollah signaled it won\u2019t cooperate<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4593861\/rubio-risk-escalation-russia-ukraine-war\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Rubio warns risk of escalation in Russia-Ukraine war is \u2018more real than it was two years ago\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ceasefire, mediated by the United States, is contradictory in nature. It is ostensibly aimed at a permanent peace but allows for Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon to continue. It is \u201ccontingent on a complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of all Hezbollah operatives\u201d from south of the Litani River, but excluded Hezbollah from the negotiations \u2014 though the terrorist group has since made clear it would not have been interested anyway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs long as the occupation exists, the resistance will continue,\u201d Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem warned following the announcement. His group has rejected the ceasefire entirely, calling it \u201ca road map for the annihilation of a section of the Lebanese people and the enslavement of the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Israeli troops gather on the border with Lebanon in northern Israel on Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ariel Schalit)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key line of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-off-track-heres-how-republicans-plan-to-move-the-needle-on-climate-change\/\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re Off Track\u2019: Here\u2019s How Republicans Plan To Move The Needle On Climate Change\">document signed<\/a> by the two governments indicates a deeper purpose: \u201cAll countries reaffirmed that the future of the relationship between Israel and Lebanon must be decided by the two sovereign governments. They rejected any attempt, by any state or non-state actor, to hold Lebanon\u2019s future hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those \u201cstate\u201d and \u201cnon-state\u201d actors are clear references to Iran and Hezbollah, Tehran\u2019s regional proxy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis agreement is state-to-state, and this is why the recent negotiations are good \u2014 because in the past, Lebanon was never able to negotiate directly with Israel,\u201d Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow of the Washington Institute focusing on Levant politics, told the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em> \u201cThe idea of these talks was that these direct negotiations would undermine Hezbollah, and it would allow for the forging of a viable agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced Thursday that the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lebanon\/\">Lebanese army<\/a> is beginning to deploy to the presanctioned \u201cpilot zones\u201d as the \u201cfirst phase\u201d of hopefully ending the violence. The Lebanese forces are expected to maintain control over these zones and ensure \u201cnon-state actors\u201d such as Hezbollah are neutralized and disarmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salam said the Lebanese deployment to pilot zones \u201cdoes not prejudice our right to a full (Israeli) withdrawal, but brings us closer to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tabler said that while the arrangement has been dubbed a \u201cceasefire,\u201d it is \u201cvery much like a bilateral de-escalation agreement\u201d in practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aaron Miller, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, similarly told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that the ceasefire is, in reality, more of a de-escalation campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCeasefires are made to be broken,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWithout monitoring, without verification, without a fundamental commitment from Hezbollah and the Israelis, you cannot have a sustainable ceasefire \u2014 and you don\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Smoke rises near the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel on Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ariel Schalit)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miller speculated that because \u201cthe Iranians said no negotiations if you strike Beirut,\u201d President Donald Trump \u201cpicked up the phone\u201d and got Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree not to march on the Lebanese capital \u2014 seeing such a scenario as counterproductive to peace in both Lebanon and Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House has been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4595849\/trump-iran-war-restart-red-line-troops\/\">mired in endless negotiations with Tehran<\/a> since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury in February. Iran has repeatedly insisted that any peace negotiations to open the now-shuttered Strait of Hormuz would require a ceasefire in Lebanon as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel has appeared largely unconcerned with the effects of its campaign on the wider Iranian negotiations, with its military reportedly preparing to move north toward Beirut before Trump spoke to Netanyahu and demanded he abandon such course of action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-kamala-harris-bragged-about-playing-major-role-in-bidens-plan-to-pull-out-of-afghanistan\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris Bragged About Playing Major Role In Biden\u2019s Plan To Pull Out Of Afghanistan\">president affirmed<\/a> in an interview earlier this week that he had <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4591817\/some-insiders-want-trump-to-go-public-netanyahu-beef\/\">accused the Israeli prime minister<\/a> of being \u201cf***ing crazy\u201d during their conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4595133\/ayatollah-iran-defeated-us-trump-rubio-active\/\">AYATOLLAH SAYS IRAN HAS \u2018DEFEATED\u2019 US AS TRUMP, RUBIO ACKNOWLEDGE HE\u2019S PLAYING ACTIVE ROLE IN REGIME<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miller said that if the Lebanese armed forces are able to manage these pilot zones, it would \u201cstrengthen the central government, allow some villagers to return, and on the whole, be shot in the arm for the Lebanese government.\u201d But he is not sure it\u2019s possible, \u201cgiven the flare-up and fighting that\u2019s almost certain to occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that officials should \u201cbe under no illusions\u201d that the Lebanese military is capable of taking on \u201cthe demilitarization of Hezbollah any more than the Palestinians could take on the demilitarization of Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel and Hezbollah trade strikes despite the latest ceasefire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2610814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26155335972498.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[24658,3823,79758,32219],"class_list":["post-2610813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel-lebanon-ceasefire","tag-middle-east-conflict"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26155335972498.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610817,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610813\/revisions\/2610817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}