English transcript

Don't forget that the Lebanese people last Wednesday woke up thinking they were part

of this wider ceasefire deal that the United States and Iran had agreed to, that two-week

ceasefire.

What they were met with was 100 strikes in 10 minutes, which ended up killing more than

350 people.

So this is a nation that continues to reel as a result of the war that's lasted here

for the last six weeks.

The Lebanese health ministry says that the death toll is now well over 2,000 people.

That includes women and children.

And a fifth of this nation has been displaced.

And, you know, Adam was talking there about the fact that, sure, this might not be a peace

plan, but it is important that there is some kind of cessation of hostilities, even if

Israeli forces don't leave Lebanese territory.

And that is a major concern here for the government as well.

And that is also one of the key reasons that the Lebanese president didn't talk to Benjamin

Netanyahu today, because, of course, we all woke up to this rumor that the two leaders

would be speaking.

It wasn't even a rumor.

It was a truth social post put out by the U.S. President Donald Trump saying that this

call was going to take place.

Now, sources close to the Lebanese president said that was absolutely not the case, because

this is an incredibly complex society, and it would be seen as a betrayal by so many

people who are still so incredibly angry about the death toll here, the displacement here,

the fact that Israeli forces remain in the south of the country.

Now, Israeli forces, the IDF, say they are there because they believe a buffer zone needs

to be created at least eight kilometers, because they don't want to see Hezbollah

rockets being launched onto sites in the north of Israel.

So they are saying they're doing it for their security reasons.

And the government here is saying, well, we can't just pick up the call and put the president

onto the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu, and an image that took place in the southern part

of Lebanon on those border towns earlier this week of Benjamin Netanyahu on the ground

with the IDF, angered, outraged, appalled people here.

So it's incredibly sensitive and tricky.

And, of course, the U.S. President saying that he's going to invite the two leaders

to the White House, it will be sensitive, it will be difficult, and, frankly, the Lebanese

government, the Lebanese people will need something more, and not to mention that this

will also be an incredibly fragile ceasefire.

All it will take is a few rockets or drones being launched towards northern Israel for

this entire thing to collapse.