A 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire took effect at 17:00 local on Friday 17 April. Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops would not withdraw from the 10-kilometre southern Lebanon "security zone" during the truce and that the ceasefire did not apply to Hezbollah operations1. An Israeli strike killed one civilian in Kounine, a village in southern Lebanon, within the first 24 hours. The Lebanese Army reported multiple Israeli violations, including intermittent shelling in southern villages.
Trump posted on Truth Social that Israel was "PROHIBITED" from bombing Lebanon after Netanyahu's cabinet remark that the Lebanon fight was "not over". The truce itself was announced through the same Truth Social channel, not through a published text with Lebanese counter-signatures. Hezbollah is explicitly outside the agreement, which leaves no armed Lebanese party bound to the ceasefire the Israeli prime minister has already partially disowned.
The Lebanon truce expires around 26-27 April, four days after the Iran ceasefire expires on 22 April. Two verbal truces are now stacked on top of each other, neither backed by a published bilateral text, both announced from a US president's social-media account rather than from a State Department readout. The Iran 22 April expiry and the Lebanon 26-27 April expiry land inside the four-deadline convergence window this briefing's WPR and GL-U sections set out.
