War: Israel will abide by ceasefire, protect its troops – Freeman

Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, has said that his country will abide by the ceasefire with Lebanon but will protect its troops like any country would.

Freeman made this assertion on Tuesday in an interview on Arise News, a Nigeria-based television.

He said that there was an immediate threat to their troops on the ground, which made them to take action to prevent the attack on their troops.

“We are abiding by the ceasefire. We’ve made it very clear that Israel will abide by that ceasefire. We will also act to protect our citizens and our troops like any country would. We just hope that the ceasefire holds.

“We’ve just been told by our army that there was a direct threat and an imminent threat to our troops, and I’m sure that over the coming days, that information will come out.

“But at the moment, we know that it was a direct and imminent threat. We acted because we know that certainly in terror organizations like Hezbollah, whenever they put a threat, they carry it out,” he said.