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Netanyahu vows no rest until northern residents return

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister

25 September 2024 22:49 (UTC +04:00)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to ensure the safe return of northern residents as the US pushes for a ceasefire to end the conflict with Hezbollah, APA reports citing The Jerusalem Post.

Israel won’t rest until the residents in the north can return safely to their homes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday amid reports that the US was close to securing a ceasefire to the year-long constrained IDF-Hezbollah war.

"I cannot detail everything we are doing,” Netanyahu said in a statement to the Israeli public, “but I can tell you one thing: we are determined to return residents from the North safely to their homes.

“We are inflicting blows on Hezbollah it did not imagine. We do it with strength; we do it with guile. I promise you one thing - we will not rest until they come home,” he said.

Netanyahu spoke before he was scheduled to depart for the United Nations, where he plans to defend Israel before the UN General Assembly, which has questioned its right to self-defense against Iranian proxy groups, Hamas and Hezbollah.