Lebanese Ask, 'What Cease-Fire?' as Violence Simmers in the South

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : " On Friday, Israel appeared to intensify its campaign, warning residents to evacuate the southern Lebanese town of Deir Aames before carrying out airstrikes.
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45% : Neither Israel nor Lebanon, despite having engaged in rare diplomatic talks in Washington, has commented publicly on the cease-fire extension.
44% : Hezbollah, which was not directly involved in the U.S.-mediated talks, has signaled that it would reluctantly abide by the truce, so long as Israel does.
42% : Under the terms of the truce, Israel has the right to act in self-defense, which it has cited as a justification for continuing to carry out strikes deep inside Lebanon.
39% : Senior political figures in Hezbollah have also dismissed the truce as meaningless, amid what they describe as Israel's continuing escalation.
39% : The town sits outside the six-mile-deep "forward defense line" that Israel said it would hold during the cease-fire, raising concerns that its operations were expanding.
36% : The Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired rockets from the area a day earlier toward northern Israel. Ali Fayyad, a senior lawmaker affiliated with Hezbollah, said in a statement on Friday that the three-week extension of the cease-fire did not hold "any meaning" because of continued Israeli attacks in Lebanon's south.
33% : Though the large-scale Israeli bombing of recent weeks has halted, hostilities have simmered in persistent, lower-level violence between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

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