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As the 60-day deadline for the complete withdrawal of Zionist forces from southern Lebanon approaches, there are growing indications that the withdrawal will not occur as scheduled.
The deadline, set for next Sunday, has seen continued violations of the ceasefire agreement by Israeli enemy forces, and officials now suggest that the pullout may be delayed.
With only 48 hours remaining before the deadline, the Zionist Broadcasting Authority reported that Israeli army representatives recently informed the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the army would be unable to meet the withdrawal deadline.
Major General Uri Gordin, the commander of Israel’s northern region, painted a "bleak picture" of the border situation, blaming Hezbollah for violating the ceasefire and accusing the Lebanese army of aiding the group.
Despite hundreds of violations, the occupation military enemy has yet to signal any readiness to fully adhere to the withdrawal terms.
This marks another escalation in tensions over the implementation of the ceasefire agreement.
In the same context, the Zionist Channel 13 quoted sources as saying that the Zionist enemy asked the administration of US President Donald Trump to maintain five military points in southern Lebanon.
The channel reported that the enemy's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Trump to approve the army's permanent presence in southern Lebanon, contrary to the agreement stipulating its withdrawal.
While the Zionist entity confirms that it will not withdraw within the specified period, Hezbollah issued an official statement on Thursday evening warning against a possible postponement of the Zionist enemy's withdrawal from Lebanese territory.
The party stressed that the 60-day period set for the withdrawal of Zionist forces "is coming to an end", which requires full implementation of the ceasefire agreement.
In the statement, Hezbollah stressed that any postponement or extension of the Zionist forces' presence in Lebanon is considered a flagrant violation of the agreement and an attack on Lebanese sovereignty.
The party called on the political authority in Lebanon, in cooperation with the countries sponsoring the agreement, to take effective action to ensure the implementation of the full withdrawal and the deployment of the Lebanese army throughout Lebanese territory.
It also demanded the return of the residents to their villages without delay.
The statement stressed that "any violation of the 60-day deadline is considered a flagrant violation of the agreement" and requires the Lebanese state to take all possible means to restore the land and liberate it from the occupation.
Hezbollah urged full commitment to the agreement without any concessions or attempts to circumvent international commitments.
For his part, al-Wafa, Resistance bloc member MP Ali Fayyad said that Hezbollah is awaiting January 26, "the day on which the ceasefire requires a complete Zionist withdrawal from Lebanese territory," and warned that "if the Zionist enemy does not abide by this, it will mean the collapse of the executive procedures paper, the destruction of the mechanism it included, and the undermining of the international sponsorship role of this agreement."
He added "This places all Lebanese without exception in front of a new phase and the new calculations it imposes, the title of which is confronting the Zionist occupation with all possible means and methods to expel it from our land, and this confrontation is the responsibility of all Lebanese, government, army, people, parties and resistance, except for those who want to exclude themselves because the blessed Lebanese land of the south means nothing to them."
He continued "Because his calculations and bets are elsewhere and because the Zionist enemy's failure to withdraw from our land at the specified time and without us seeing a decisive impact from international parties to impose this withdrawal, this puts the country on another path because it seriously threatens the new phase that Lebanese officials are promising, under international sponsorship, to the Lebanese people."
Fayyad stressed that "the stumbling block in the path of the Zionist withdrawal and the failure of the residents of 52 Lebanese towns to return to their towns safely if it happens, will threaten other paths related to recovery, stability and reform of the state."
He said "We are waiting for this day impatiently and with great caution and vigilance, and we will deal with any Zionist presence, even an inch, in the areas it entered in this war on the basis that the Zionist party blew up the agreement and that the international community did not abide by its promises."
In turn, a member of the Political Council in Hezbollah, Ghaleb Abu Zeinab, said in a statement to al-Mayadeen channel "The enemy must commit to withdrawing completely from all Lebanese territories on Sunday, otherwise Monday will be another day."
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem had previously warned against "testing the party's patience with any Zionist violations of the agreement after the specified deadline."
Sheikh Qassem said the resistance's patience with the violations was to give an opportunity to the Lebanese state and the international sponsors responsible for this agreement, calling for not testing the resistance's patience.
Sheikh Qassem addressed those dreaming of hostility as saying "The resistance in Lebanon will remain resistant to the American-Zionist project, and it is continuing, strong, ready, and faithful to the blood of the martyrs to liberate the land, to liberate Palestine."
The ceasefire agreement concluded between the Zionist entity and the Lebanese Hezbollah last November stipulates the withdrawal of the enemy army from southern Lebanon within 60 days of signing the agreement, which ends on Sunday, January 26.
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