New Delhi:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel supported US President Donald Trump's decision to suspend attacks against Iran for two weeks but said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, contradicting an earlier announcement by Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has acted as a mediator in the war in the Middle East.

"Israel also supports the US effort to ensure that Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile and terror threat to America, Israel, Iran's Arab neighbors and the world," Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Wednesday.

"The United States has told Israel that it is committed to achieving these goals, shared by the US, Israel and Israel's regional allies, in the upcoming negotiations," the statement added. "The two-week ceasefire does not include Lebanon," it said.

His statement came hours after his Pakistani counterpart, Shehbaz Sharif, said that the ceasefire agreed to by the US, Iran and their allies extended "everywhere", including Lebanon.

Crisis-hit Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war on March 2 when Hezbollah, which is the most prominent actor in the so-called axis of resistance -- regional pro-Tehran armed groups opposed to Israel -- fired rockets towards Israeli cities to avenge the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel then responded with large-scale strikes on Lebanon, leaving more than 1,500 people dead and displacing over one million people, more than a fifth of the country's population.

Source:Ndtv