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On Friday, Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement at the White House after months of direct negotiations coordinated by the Trump administration. Lebanese human rights experts and critics have condemned the agreement, saying that it does not mark a step forward for Lebanon, but rather, is a capitulation that continues Israel\u2019s invasion and threatens to further endanger the country. <\/p>\n

In remarks at a press conference Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the U.S.-brokered framework agreement a \u201chistoric milestone.\u201d He celebrated the separation of Israel\u2019s war on Lebanon from negotiations with Iran, saying, \u201cLebanon, Israel, and the U.S. are essentially saying to Iran: This is none of your business. You have no status here. You have no involvement and no role, not you, not Hezbollah, and not any terrorist organization.\u201d <\/p>\n

Netanyahu has faced backlash within Israel after the U.S. excluded him from negotiations with Iran, and has followed it with bluster and threats against Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza. <\/p>\n

The framework agreement between the U.S., Israel, and Lebanon calls for the \u201cdisarmament of non-state armed groups\u201d and dismantling of their infrastructure \u2013 referring to Hezbollah, and any other group engaging in armed resistance against Israel from within Lebanon. It calls for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to \u201crestore effective sovereign authority over all Lebanese territory.\u201d <\/p>\n

But the Lebanese Army was created as an internal security force, and not one that could defend the country from Israel. Of course, this works well with Israel\u2019s goals for Lebanon, as it pushes for the replacement of Hezbollah, a force that is capable of resisting Israel\u2019s occupation, with one that is not. <\/p>\n

The LAF, the framework states, will then \u201cgradually\u201d assume control of so-called \u201cpilot zones,\u201d which will then lead to phased withdrawal of the Israeli army. But even this framing legitimizes Israel\u2019s current occupation of south Lebanon, as if Israel is carrying out a necessary good rather than actively destroying vast civilian areas of the south.<\/p>\n

The agreement notes that two initial \u201czones\u201d have been agreed upon by Israel and Lebanon. On Friday, Netanyahu said Israel is leaving sites that it \u201cdoes not need\u201d in Lebanon. He also insisted that the framework allows Israel to maintain its \u201csecurity zone\u201d in Lebanon for as long as it needs \u2013 until Hezbollah is \u201cdisarmed\u201d and \u201cuntil there is no longer a threat to Israel from Lebanon.\u201d <\/p>\n

Calls for Hezbollah to be disarmed as Israel continues its invasion and occupation of Lebanon have already been rejected by many Lebanese, particularly those from the south. It is highly unlikely that the group could be forced to disarm as it is seen as the sole force protecting the south from Israel\u2019s incursions. <\/p>\n

The framework goes on to state that the U.S. and Lebanon will both work to prevent funds from reaching any individual, group, or organization \u201caffiliated with non-state armed groups\u201d and will \u201cproscribe\u201d any such group \u2013 again, referring largely to Hezbollah. But this will also be difficult, as Hezbollah is part of Lebanon\u2019s government and has been for over 20 years. <\/p>\n

Lebanese human rights and legal experts have also criticized Article 13 of the 14-point agreement, which directs Israel and Lebanon to \u201ctake good faith measures that demonstrate positive intent, including the cessation of all hostile or adverse actions in international political or legal fora.\u201d This clause suggests that the Lebanese government has agreed not to pursue charges of war crimes against Israeli officials at the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Human rights organizations have accused Israel of committing multiple war crimes during its war on Lebanon \u2013 including the forced displacement of over 1 million people, the deliberate targeting of civilians, and wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure. <\/p>\n

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The agreement concludes by thanking President Donald Trump for his \u201cvision and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel are unprecedented. Over the past year, factions of Lebanon\u2019s government have turned against Hezbollah, under U.S. and Israeli pressure, and blamed Hezbollah for Israel\u2019s latest war on Lebanon.<\/p>\n

More than 4,200 people have been killed in Lebanon in the latest Israeli war on the country that began on March 2. <\/p>\n

The war started after Hezbollah fired on Israel for the first time since 2024, in response to the U.S. and Israel\u2019s killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran. But Israeli violations in Lebanon had not stopped since Israel\u2019s 2024 war on Lebanon \u2013 with some 10,000 Israeli ceasefire violations recorded since the 2024 war. <\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s 2026 war on Lebanon has seen the largest invasion of the country since 1982, when Israel invaded and occupied the south of Lebanon until it was forced out in 2000. A multi-sect resistance movement in Lebanon fought against Israel\u2019s incursions and occupation beginning in the 1970s, but ultimately, it was Hezbollah that forcibly ejected Israel from Lebanon in 2000. <\/p>\n

Palestinian-Lebanese Ussama Makdisi, a historian at U.C. Berkeley, compared the agreement to a May 1983 agreement between the Israeli army and the weak, pro-U.S. Lebanese government installed after Israel\u2019s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it was so unpopular and illegitimate in the eyes of so many Lebanese, that \u2018agreement\u2019 was annulled following an uprising in February 1984 by various Lebanese militias and parties against the U.S.-backed government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Today, Makdisi says, Israel has two models for Lebanon \u2013 one, the West Bank model, with a government that is subordinate to Israel\u2019s will, and the other, the Gaza model, in which Israel ethnically cleanses and destroys the majority of south Lebanon, as it did in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Ziad Abu-Rish, associate professor of human rights at Bard College and co-editor of Jadaliyya, <\/em>told Truthout<\/em> that the agreement is \u201cimpossible to successfully implement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy signing onto this agreement, the participating elements of the Lebanese government have effectively conceded to Israel the latter\u2019s framing of Israeli-Lebanese relations, Israeli strategic objectives in Lebanon, and Israeli military occupation of southern Lebanon\u2014all in the context of a genocidal Israeli state without any constraints, whether they be in the form of international legal accountability, global arms embargo, bilateral sanctions, U.S. foreign aid cuts, or Israeli domestic opposition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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