Israeli foreign minister rejects proposal of cease-fire in Lebanon conflict

A portrait of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah sits amid destruction in a area targeted overnight by Israeli airstrikes in Saksakiyeh on Sept. 26, 2024. An emergency worker cuts concrete blocks as he searches for survivors at the scene of an Israeli airstrike in the town of Maisara, north of Beirut, Sept. 25, 2024.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz Thursday rejected a proposed cease-fire along the Israel-Lebanon border, hours after the European Union, the United States, France and eight other nations called for a 21-day halt in fighting.