Israel's Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said on X on Tuesday that during a meeting with military officials, he reiterated that Israel will continue hitting Lebanon’s Hezbollah with full force and that there will be no ceasefire.
His comment came a day after Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said the war against Hezbollah was not yet over. The main challenge facing any ceasefire deal would be enforcement, he said, though there was "a certain progress" in talks.
Pummeled by Israel's offensive, Hezbollah said political contacts were under way involving its backers in Tehran, Washington and Moscow, while also saying it had enough weapons for a "long war" and keeping up rocket fire into Israel.
The Biden administration has spent months trying to broker a ceasefire, and there were reports that US envoy Amos Hochstein might return to the region in the coming days.
