Hezbollah rejects US-backed Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

In Lebanon on 5 June 2026, Hezbollah rejected a US-backed ceasefire with Israel, according to the BBC, and the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun quoted the group as calling it humiliating. Benjamin Netanyahu said no agreement was currently in place with Lebanon, and that if Hezbollah agreed he would bring the ceasefire deal to his cabinet for approval. Lebanon’s parliament speaker backed a Hezbollah pullback in parallel with an Israeli withdrawal.

Lebanese President Aoun told CNN that Iran was using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its talks with the US, saying “It’s not your country, it’s our country”. Iran declared its support for Hezbollah, and Bloomberg reported that progress in US-Iran talks stalled after Hezbollah’s rejection. Canada and European allies urged restraint and called on Israel to halt its military escalation, and Egypt condemned attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.