Hezbollah-allied Lebanese parliament speaker says deal with Israel ‘will not pass’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.

Iran-backed Hezbollah claims ‘right to defend its homeland’ in Lebanon

Hezbollah claims it reserves the right to self-defense after several Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon amid a truce and a US-Israel-Lebanon framework to end hostilities.

In a statement, the Iran-backed terrorist group says that it “reiterates that what the enemy has done is a blatant violation of the ceasefire to which it has adhered until now, and that it is monitoring and tracking these violations, and reserves its right to defend its homeland and its people.”

Hezbollah-allied Lebanese parliament speaker says deal with Israel ‘will not pass’

Lebanese Parliament Speaker and Hezbollah ally Nabih Berri says that the trilateral framework agreement between Lebanon, Israel and the United States will not pass as it doesn’t guarantee Lebanon’s rights.

“This agreement will not pass, and it will not be implemented in its current form,” Berri says in a statement shared by his party the Amal movement, adding that it was “an agreement of ‘dictates,’ not an agreement that preserves Lebanon’s rights.”

The deal paves the way for Lebanese-Israeli peace and conditions Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon on Hezbollah’s disarmament.

Putin says US negotiators expected in Moscow once US less busy with Iran talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is expecting a team of US negotiators to come to Moscow, once Washington has reached an agreement with Iran over the Middle East conflict.

“We are ready to continue negotiations and ready to continue negotiations and discuss all the details,” Putin says in an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin, cited by Russian news agencies, which Zarubin also publishes on the Telegram platform.

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IDF says troops stationed in southern Syria fired upon; no injuries reported

Israeli troops stationed in southern Syria came under fire a short while ago, the military says.

No injuries were caused in the incident.

The IDF says that in response, troops returned fire and launched mortars in the area, and a helicopter carried out a strike in an open area.

The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024. They are mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.