Beirut: Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday affirmed that the Lebanese Army has executed 90 percent of the cease-fire accord south of the Litani River. The mission will be entirely finalized by the year-end, said Berri in a statement released after he met with members of the Journalists Syndicate.
According to Kuwait News Agency, Lebanon has been actively working since November 2024, when the accord of ceasing hostilities was reached. Berri noted that the army has "executed the schedule and the army deployed with more than 9,300 officers and soldiers backed by UN Interim Forces in Lebanon, latest report of which verified this."
Berri further stated that the Israeli occupation forces have breached this agreement more than 11,000 times and expanded occupation of the Lebanese territories. The area south of the Litani River, a strip extending from the riverbanks to the UN-drawn Blue Line, is roughly 20 to 30 kilometers wide.
He emphasized that Lebanon, through the "mechanism" commission, has been seeking to secure the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces, deploy the Lebanese Army troops, and restrict arms possession south of the Litani to the Lebanese armed forces. The commission, including American and French officers, was established as a coordination body with the occupation in 2006.