US Central Command announced that the ceasefire committee conducted planning to complete transfer of all villages to LAF control by February 18.

Head of the Ceasefire Monitoring Committee in Lebanon, U.S. General Jasper Jeffers had stated, “We are confident that the Lebanese army will control the villages south of Litani River before Tuesday.”

Meanwhile, the Israeli media reflected the occupation’s insistence on keeping troops in five positions in South Lebanon after February 18. Jerusalem Post reported that ‘Israel’ rejected a French proposal that enhances the Israeli full withdrawal with UN forces replace the occupation troops in the five said positions.

Al-Manar TV’s editor of Hebrew affairs Hasan Hejazi said that the Israeli enemy insists on keeping troops in South Lebanon in order to blackmail Lebanon and achieve more gains in return for its full withdrawal.

The ceasefire took effect on November 27, 2024, ending a 66-day Zionist war on Lebanon. After the end of the 60-day withdrawal deadline, the bias US sponsor of the agreement supported the Israeli enemy to keep its occupation forces in South Lebanon till February 18, 2025.

Regarding the Zionist violations, the Israeli enemy booby-trapped seven houses in the northeastern sector of Yaroun border town. Later on, the Israeli occupation forces detonated a number of houses in Yaroun and Mays Al-Jabal border towns.

The Israeli occupation forces erected surveillance equipment in Mount Blat area in preparation to keep troops there after February 18.

Source: Al-Manar English Website