Donald Trump has announced that the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel has been extended. The US President took to Truth Social to share an update, and said a meeting between representatives from the US, Israel and Lebanon “went very well”. Trump wrote in a post shared at 10.21pm BST on April 23: “The President of the United States, DONALD J. TRUMP, Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, and Ambassador to Lebanon, Michel Issa, met today with High Ranking Representatives of Israel and Lebanon in the Oval Office.”
He then revealed that the ceasefire would be extended for a further three weeks. “The Meeting went very well! The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah,” the post reads. “The Ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by THREE WEEKS.”
He added: “I look forward in the near future to hosting the Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun. It was a Great Honor to be a participant at this very Historic Meeting!”
“I think it has a great chance. I mean, you know, they’re friends about the same things and they’re enemies on the same things.
“You look at Hezbollah, that’s where everybody seems to be united against them. So they are both very united in that way. I think there’s a very good chance of having peace. I think it should be an easy one relative to some of the things we’re working on.”
He continued: “It should be an easy one, but it’s been so many years because nobody focused on it.
“But Lebanon was a great country. It was a beautiful country, smart people, very brilliant people, doctors, professors, economists, some of the smartest people on the planet.”
