Is the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire over before it began? - The Latest
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:11.0 | It's really difficult. |
| 0:12.2 | I mean, you still have a million people displaced, many living on the streets. |
| 0:15.4 | People are just trying to figure out, you know, where safety is. |
| 0:18.0 | The text of the ceasefire agreed last night said that Hezbollah must stop firing |
| 0:21.7 | in Israel. Hesbala has rejected that. Donald Trump was forced to pay attention to what's happening in Lebanon |
| 0:26.7 | because it could upset the peace negotiates with Iran. And Lebanese people sort of have to contend |
| 0:32.3 | with trying to figure out for themselves. From the Guardians today on Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoth. |
| 0:42.0 | There's been talk today about a ceasefire brokered by the US between Israel and Lebanon. Will Christu, |
| 0:50.7 | you are our Guardian reporter in Beirut, so you're right across this. I mean, I think the |
| 0:55.9 | word ceasefire has become sort of divorced from any meaning given how many we've had and how little |
| 1:01.6 | they seem to mean in practice. So is this a ceasefire at all? And if so, what are its terms? |
| 1:09.2 | Not a ceasefire, unfortunately. Like you said, ceasefires are on sale. |
| 1:13.6 | We had announcement of a ceasefire at around 2 in the morning, Beirut Time, and then we had a rejection of a ceasefire at around 3pm, Beirut time. |
| 1:22.6 | In the meantime, we had airstrikes and firing from Hezbollah and Israel on both sides. |
| 1:29.2 | So no ceasefire. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, so it doesn't sound like any ceasefire at all. |
| 1:33.2 | The crucial sort of player in this was Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group. |
| 1:38.3 | And they had made it clear that they wouldn't accept what they described as a partial ceasefire, |
| 1:43.4 | which was what it seemed to be on the table. |
| 1:45.6 | What was some of the things that they objected to? |
| 1:48.8 | Because it sounds like it was very favourable to Israel's demands. |
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