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2. Sign of Harry S Truman Building, headquarters of U.S. Department of State

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A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect at midnight between Thursday and Friday local time (2100 GMT), following an earlier announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The truce aims to end more than a month of deadly escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, which has claimed over 2,000 lives.

In a statement, Israel's military said that it struck more than 380 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon over the past day, including militants, launchers and headquarters.

Israel's rescue service Magen David Adom claimed that Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel during the final hours before the ceasefire went into effect, resulting in three injuries.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a videotaped statement that Israel will maintain a 10-km security zone in southern Lebanon during the ceasefire period.

He cited security needs, rejected withdrawal, and highlighted a historic opportunity for peace between Israel and Lebanon, alongside a demand to disarm Hezbollah.

In a statement on Thursday, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam expressed gratitude for all regional and international efforts that contributed to reaching this outcome, adding that the ceasefire was a pivotal Lebanese demand "since the first day of the war."

On the same day, Hezbollah said that the presence of Israeli forces on Lebanese territory would grant Lebanon and its people the "right to resist," stressing that any ceasefire deal must not allow Israel to move freely within Lebanon.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei also welcomed the truce on Thursday, noting that it is part of the Pakistan-mediated two-week ceasefire deal between Iran and the United States to stop the war, according to official news agency IRNA.

A previous ceasefire in Lebanon, which had been in place since November 2024, was characterized by near-daily Israeli strikes in the country. The fragile truce collapsed on March 2, when Hezbollah launched rockets toward Israel in support of Iran, triggering intensified Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon。