Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office deflected international calls for a cease-fire with Hezbollah Thursday, hours after President Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for them to back a temporary truce proposal with wide international support. The U.S. and French leaders called Wednesday on both sides in the high-stakes standoff to back the proposal, but neither had indicated any support by Thursday, and the exchange of deadly fire continued.
Mr. Biden and Macron, both in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, issued their joint call late Tuesday for a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah after a week of Israeli airstrikes that have killed more than 630 people in Lebanon, according to the country’s health ministry.
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