"The news about a cease-fire — not true,” Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on social media.Pool photo by Abir Sultan/AFP via Getty Images

Netanyahu trashes US and French plan for Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire – POLITICO

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Thursday a proposal by the United States and France for a three-week cease-fire with Hezbollah, vowing to keep fighting "with full force."

"The news about a cease-fire — not true,” Netanyahu wrote on social media. “This is an American-French proposal, to which the prime minister did not even respond.”

The White House announced Wednesday evening a proposal for a temporary 21-day halt to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed political movement and militant group based in Lebanon.