Lebanon's President accuses Israel of 'intensifying' attacks in response to negotiations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Israel "is responding to this option by carrying out more attacks against Lebanon... and intensifying tensions," he added during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul. Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) said an Israeli drone targeted a man on a motorbike in the village of Kunin on Friday.
41% : Despite a November 2024 ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Israel maintains troops in five areas in southern Lebanon and has kept up regular air strikes.
41% : Aoun had called for negotiations with Israel in mid-October, after US President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire in Gaza.
41% : On Tuesday, the spokesman for the UN rights commission, Jeremy Laurence, said Israeli forces had killed 111 civilians in Lebanon since the ceasefire went into effect.
38% : Hezbollah began launching cross-border fire at Israel following the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October 2023, kicking off a more than year-long conflict that culminated in two months of open war before last year's ceasefire was agreed.
36% : Israel, however, has never stopped carrying out air strikes on Lebanon -- usually claiming it is targeting Hezbollah positions -- and has stepped up the attacks in recent days.
31% : Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday accused Israel of responding to its offer to negotiate by intensifying its air strikes, the latest of which killed a man riding a motorbike in southern Lebanon.
31% : Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi asked his visiting German counterpart on Friday to "help put pressure on Israel to stop its attacks.

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