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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 226349" data-attributes="member: 26009">The Israeli military is keeping troops at five southern Lebanese posts despite a Tuesday withdrawal deadline. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will, for the time being, remain at the outposts in Lebanon “so we can continue to defend our residents and to make sure there’s no immediate threat,” Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an IDF spokesperson, said on Monday. Israel’s military identified the handful of strategic locations in southern Lebanon overlooking northern Israeli communities.The Israeli military is believed to have withdrawn from Lebanese population centers in recent days. The Lebanese military announced new deployments Tuesday morning to various towns in southern Lebanon.Lebanon will consider any remaining Israeli presence on its territory as an “occupation,” the Lebanese Presidency said in a statement Tuesday, adding that it reserves the right “to employ all means” to ensure Israel’s withdrawal.But signaling that Hezbollah is unlikely to launch an immediate fight against Israel’s remaining troops, the group’s Al Manar TV declared on Tuesday that southern Lebanon had “returned because of the blood of the martyrs.”Israel and Hezbollah ended a year-long war in November, in a ceasefire brokered in part by the United States. A deadline for Israel to withdraw, originally set for January, was extended to February 18 at Israel’s request.<img src="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/ap25026422596783.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill" alt="A Lebanese woman sits on the rubble of a house in Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village, on January 26." class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A Lebanese woman sits on the rubble of a house in Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village, on January 26. Around 60,000 Israelis were forced from their homes in the north of the country after Hezbollah attacked Israel in solidarity with Hamas, in October 2023. Few of them have returned to border towns that have been devastated by rocket fire. A year-long, low-level conflict culminated last fall with an Israeli invasion and bombing campaign that saw more than a million Lebanese civilians displaced from their homes.“The most basic violation is the presence of Hezbollah activists south of the Litani River,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, it continued to be the reality. Once Lebanon fully implements its side of the deal, there will be no need to hold these points.”Israel has declined to say whether Lebanon’s government had agreed to the extension, saying only that the Israeli government had spoken with the ceasefire’s mediators, led by the US.Publicly, Lebanese leaders had been scathing. Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, said in a Thursday statement that the US had informed him of Israel’s plan, which he rejected on Lebanon’s behalf.“I refused to talk about any deadline to extend the withdrawal period,” he said, according to Lebanon’s official news agency NNA. “And it is the responsibility of the Americans to impose the withdrawal.” He added that if Israel remains in those locations, it “means that the Israelis will practice freedom of movement and aggression in Lebanon, and this is unacceptable.”Palestinians killed in Hamas war so far more than 48000 and more than one lakh injured</blockquote>

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