Netanyahu: Lebanon recognises Israeli security zone inside Lebanon

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said both the US and Lebanon recognise its security zone inside Lebanon under an agreement made a day earlier. In his statement, Netanyahu showed a map of the two 'pilot zones' that Israel had agreed to eventually hand over to the Lebanese army as part of the agreement. One of them was entirely outside of the area that Israeli troops occupy, while the other was on the edge of the expanded occupation area Israel announced last week. The framework agreed on Friday (26 June) provides for a phased Israeli withdrawal from some parts of southern Lebanon, alongside the deployment of the Lebanese army. But Israeli forces would be permitted to remain in an expanded security zone for the time being. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has rejected the US-brokered security agreement on Saturday, describing it as a surrender to Israel. Qassem said the Iran-US memorandum of understanding reached earlier this month, which guarantees Lebanon's territorial i