On the 21st, Israeli defense minister KATZ said past and current IDF operations inside Lebanon to "eliminate threats" have been unrestricted. He said the IDF will deploy inside a Lebanese "security zone".

Israeli finance minister and far-right politician Bezalel Smotrich told a June 20 broadcast interview that a Palestinian state would be "Gaza expanded 20-fold" and "more dangerous than Iran" and must be prevented. He said Gaza should remain under Israeli military control and reiterated his long-standing opposition to a two-state solution. The international community broadly regards a two-state outcome as the only viable path to Israeli-Palestinian peace; Israel’s far right remains strongly opposed.

The presidential office’s deputy director for communications and news affairs, Tabatabaei, said on the 21st that pressing for an end to Israeli military operations in Lebanon will be Iran’s negotiation delegation’s chief diplomatic priority in the next phase. He said unconditional implementation of the first clause of the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the US is critical to keeping the deal on track, and warned that continued Israeli action in Lebanon would undermine the credibility of the entire arrangement.