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Pakistan says Lebanon's PM seeks support for immediate end to attacks

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Published :
Apr 09, 2026 20:00
Updated :
Apr 09, 2026 20:00

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam leads a cabinet meeting, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 26, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Pakistan said Lebanon Prime Minister Nawaf Salam ‌had sought Islamabad's support for bringing an immediate end to the attacks targeting ⁠Lebanon and its people in a phone call with Pakistan's prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif.

"... Pakistan was engaged in sincere efforts for ‌regional ⁠peace and it was in this spirit that the peace talks between ⁠Iran and the US were being convened," Sharif ⁠told Salam, according to a statement ⁠from Pakistan's Prime Minister Office.​

 

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Lebanon seeks temporary ceasefire to allow broader talks with Israel, official says

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Published :
Apr 09, 2026 23:10
Updated :
Apr 09, 2026 23:11

Members of the military at the site of an Israeli strike carried out on Wednesday, in Ain Al Mraiseh in Beirut, Lebanon, April 9, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanon has spent the last 24 hours advocating for a ‌temporary ceasefire to allow for broader talks with Israel, a senior Lebanese official told Reuters, saying it ⁠would be a "separate track but the same model" as a fragile truce brokered by Pakistan between the US and Iran.

The official said no date or location had ‌been ⁠set yet but Lebanon needed the US as a mediator and guarantor of any ⁠agreement.

The official spoke to Reuters after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ⁠announced that he had instructed the start of ⁠direct negotiations with Lebanon "as soon as possible."​

 

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Israel seeks Lebanon talks after bombardments threaten Iran truce

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he is seeking direct ‌talks with Beirut, a day after the worst bombardment of the war killed more than 250 people in Lebanon and placed Donald Trump's US-Iran ceasefire in jeopardy. Trump announced a ceasefire in the six-week-old Iran

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Israel seeks Lebanon talks after bombardments threaten Iran truce

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Published :
Apr 09, 2026 22:55
Updated :
Apr 09, 2026 23:11

The Faisal Masjid, as Pakistan gears up to host the US and Iran for peace talks, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 9, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he is seeking direct ‌talks with Beirut, a day after the worst bombardment of the war killed more than 250 people in Lebanon and placed Donald Trump's US-Iran ceasefire in jeopardy.

Trump announced a ceasefire in the six-week-old Iran conflict late on Tuesday, just hours before a deadline after which he threatened to destroy Iran's entire civilisation.

In Pakistan, authorities were preparing for the first round of US-Iran talks, locking down the capital Islamabad.

But there was no sign Iran was lifting its near-total blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused the worst disruption to global energy supplies in history, with Israel's ongoing attacks on Lebanon ⁠cited as a key sticking point.

In the first 24 hours of the ceasefire, just a single oil products tanker and five dry bulk carriers sailed through a strait that typically accommodated 140 ships a day before the war, accounting for around a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows.

Netanyahu, whose government rebuffed a historic offer for direct talks with Lebanon last month, said in a statement that he had given instructions to start peace talks as soon as possible, which would also include disarming Iran-aligned militant group Hezbollah.

"In light of Lebanon's repeated requests to open direct negotiations with Israel, I instructed the cabinet yesterday to start direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible," he said. "The negotiations will focus on disarming Hezbollah and establishing peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon."

An hour before Netanyahu’s statement, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he was working on a diplomatic track on this matter that was starting to be seen "positively" by international actors.

A senior ‌Lebanese official ⁠told Reuters that Lebanon had spent the last day pushing for a temporary ceasefire to allow for broader talks with Israel, describing the effort as a "separate track but the same model" as the US-Iran truce.

The official said no date or location had been set yet but that Lebanon needed the US as a mediator and guarantor of any agreement.

ISRAEL SAYS CEASEFIRE DOES NOT COVER LEBANON

Israel, which invaded Lebanon last month in parallel with the war on Iran to root out Hezbollah, says its actions there are not covered by ⁠Trump's ceasefire.

Washington has also said Lebanon is not covered by the truce, but Iran and Pakistan, which acted as mediator, say it was explicitly part of the deal. A host of countries, including Britain and France, said the truce should extend to Lebanon.

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, expected to head the Iranian delegation opposite US Vice President JD Vance, tweeted ⁠that Lebanon and the rest of Iran's "axis" of regional allies were inseparable parts of any ceasefire.

A Pakistani source said Pakistan was working on ceasefires for Lebanon as well as Yemen, where Israel has also hit Iran-aligned forces.

ISRAEL SAYS IT KILLS HEZBOLLAH CHIEF'S NEPHEW

Israel kept up its bombing of Beirut's southern suburbs and other ⁠parts of the country on Thursday, Lebanese state media said.

It also expanded evacuation orders for areas on Beirut's outskirts to areas near Beirut airport and several displacement shelters.

Hezbollah announced at least 20 military operations on Thursday, saying it had targeted Israeli vehicles on Lebanese territory as well as firing into northern Israel.​

 

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Bangladeshi woman killed in Israeli airstrike on building in Lebanon

A Bangladeshi woman has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, the Bangladesh Embassy in the country has said. The victim, identified only as Dipali, died on Wednesday at Hamra in Beirut, where she was staying with her employer’s fami

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Bangladeshi woman killed in Israeli airstrike on building in Lebanon

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Apr 10, 2026 21:04
Updated :
Apr 10, 2026 21:04

A Bangladeshi woman has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, the Bangladesh Embassy in the country has said.

The victim, identified only as Dipali, died on Wednesday at Hamra in Beirut, where she was staying with her employer’s family, the embassy said.

Her home is in Charbhadrasan Upazila of Faridpur district, it added.

In a condolence message, the embassy described Dipali as a "remittance warrior".

According to preliminary information obtained from a neighbour of the employer, the employer and several other family members were also killed in the same explosion.

“Local police sources confirmed that the body is currently being kept at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital morgue in Beirut. The embassy is in constant communication with authorities to determine the condition of the remains,” the embassy said.

The embassy expressed deep grief over the death and extended its heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved family in Bangladesh.

Depali was the daughter of Sheikh Mofazzal and Rozina Khatun.​

 

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Hezbollah slams planned Lebanese talks with Israel as strikes kill 10

Hezbollah on Saturday renewed its rejection of direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, where authorities reported 10 people killed in the latest Israeli attacks in the country’s south...

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Hezbollah slams planned Lebanese talks with Israel as strikes kill 10
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 12 April, 2026, 00:43

Mourners weep as they attend the funeral ceremony of the members of Lebanon’s State Security agency, who were killed by an Israeli strike, in Sidon on April 11, 2026. | AFP photo

Hezbollah on Saturday renewed its rejection of direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, where authorities reported 10 people killed in the latest Israeli attacks in the country’s south.

Lebanese president Joseph Aoun’s office said on Friday that officials from his country, Israel and the United States would meet next week in Washington ‘to discuss declaring a ceasefire and the start date for negotiations between Lebanon and Israel under US auspices’.

Hundreds of people gathered near the government headquarters in central Beirut on Saturday in support of Hezbollah and to protest against the talks with Israel, some waving the group’s yellow flags or the Iranian standard.

Oula Hammoud, from south Lebanon, said she rejected any normalisation with Israel and wanted prime minister Nawaf Salam ‘to leave the country’.

‘From the start of the war until now, only the heroes have defended us,’ she said, asking: ‘What has he (Salam) done for the nation?’

Fellow demonstrator Ruqaya Msheik said the protest was a message that Lebanon ‘will not be Israeli’.

‘Whoever wants peace with Israel is not Lebanese,’ she said, adding: ‘Those who shake hands with the enemy... are Zionists.’

Aoun had repeatedly expressed readiness for direct talks ever since Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the Middle East war on March 2 with rocket fire at Israel in support of its backer Iran, sparking massive Israeli strikes and a ground invasion.

After a ceasefire was announced between the United States and Iran this week, Washington and Tehran have been at odds over whether it also applies to Lebanon, where Israel has kept up heavy strikes and Hezbollah has responded with its own attacks.

Hezbollah and its ally the Amal movement issued a statement later Saturday calling on supporters to avoid demonstrating ‘at this delicate stage’, citing interests of ‘stability, the protection of civil peace and avoiding any division that the Israeli enemy seeks’.

Earlier, Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said the decision to hold direct talks with Israel was ‘a blatant violation of the (national) pact, the constitution and Lebanese laws’.

The move ‘exacerbates domestic divisions at a time when Lebanon most needs solidarity and internal unity to face Israel’s aggression and preserve civil peace’, he added in a statement.

The government ‘has failed to protect its people and cannot be trusted to safeguard national sovereignty’, he added.

Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter has said his country ‘agreed to begin formal peace negotiations’ with the Lebanese government, but ‘refused to discuss a ceasefire with Hezbollah’.

Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, warned Salam that ignoring Hezbollah ‘will expose Lebanon to irreparable security risks’.

The Israeli military said Saturday it had struck more than 200 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon within the past 24 hours, among them rocket launchers.

Lebanon’s health ministry said 10 people were killed by Israeli strikes in the country’s south on Saturday, with state media reporting Israeli raids on more than a dozen locations.

The ministry said the dead included a member of the Lebanese civil defence and two paramedics from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee, decrying Israel’s ‘systematic’ targeting of emergency workers.

In the coastal city of Sidon, hundreds of people attended a funeral procession for 13 State Security personnel who were killed the day before in Israeli strikes in Nabatiyeh in the south.

Loved ones grasped at the coffins, each bearing the Lebanese flag, while others wept inconsolably.

The widow of one of those killed screamed: ‘Who will bring my husband back? Who will give my children their father back?’

Authorities say more than 1,950 people have been killed in Lebanon since the war erupted.​