US lawmakers react to ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah

President Biden announced Tuesday that Israel has reached a ceasefire statement with Hezbollah terrorists successful Lebanon that would extremity astir 14 months of fighting, and portion immoderate U.S. lawmakers connected some sides of the aisle congratulated efforts to scope a halt to the conflict, others suggest this is thing but a governmental football.

While speaking from the White House Rose Garden, Biden said Israel and Lebanon agreed to the deal, adding that Israel retains the close to support itself should Hezbollah interruption the pact.

"Let's beryllium clear. Israel did not motorboat this war. The Lebanese radical did not question that warfare either. Nor did the United States," Biden said. "Security for the radical of Israel and Lebanon cannot beryllium achieved lone connected the battlefield. And that's wherefore I directed my squad to enactment with the governments of Israel and Lebanon, to forge a cease-fire, to bring a struggle betwixt Israel and Hezbollah to a close."

Pentagon property secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder was asked astir a imaginable cease-fire woody during a property briefing connected Tuesday and said the Department of Defense (DoD) was "very supportive" of the ceasefire. He besides said the DoD plays an important relation successful moving with partners successful the Middle East portion to forestall a wider conflict.

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Protesters successful Israel telephone for a cease-fire and governmental solution with Hezbollah adjacent the location of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successful Jerusalem. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who serves arsenic the president of the Senate Select Committee connected Intelligence called the statement "a invited improvement for the region."

"This statement to extremity the warfare betwixt Israel and Hezbollah successful Lebanon, which has killed thousands of people, is simply a invited improvement for the portion and should summation unit connected Hamas to scope a ceasefire statement to extremity the warring and demolition successful the Gaza Strip, which has already claimed truthful galore guiltless lives," Warner said. "I applaud diplomatic efforts by the Biden medication and different planetary partners implicit galore months successful helping to scope this point."

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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., called Tuesday's cease-fire statement betwixt Israel and Hezbollah "a invited improvement for the region." (Reuters)

Also weighing successful connected the woody was Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who said helium was pleased to perceive the statement betwixt Israel and Hezbollah had been reached.

"Well done to each those progressive successful reaching this agreement," helium said. "I admit the hard enactment of the Biden Administration, supported by President Trump, to marque this ceasefire a reality. This ceasefire volition support Israel from different October 7th and volition springiness the radical of Lebanon a interruption from the fighting.

"My anticipation is that we tin soon execute a ceasefire successful Gaza and let peaceful solutions to regenerate endless conflict," helium added.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said helium was pleased to perceive a cease-fire woody had been reached betwixt Israel and Hezbollah connected Tuesday. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, connected the different hand, was not truthful speedy to congratulate the Biden administration’s efforts successful reaching a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hezbollah.

He said Israeli allies accomplished tremendous subject successes implicit the past twelvemonth against Hezbollah, resulting successful the decease of thousands of Hezbollah terrorists and eliminating the full bid of the Iranian-backed violent group.

"These actions person straight contributed to captious American nationalist information interests, including straight by liquidating violent leaders who had the humor of hundreds of American connected their hands," Cruz said. "Indeed, the U.S.-Israel narration is astatine the halfway of U.S. interests successful the Middle East, and American argumentation should beryllium to supply unequivocal subject and diplomatic enactment to our Israeli allies to afloat guarantee their security."

He past turned to the Biden administration’s tactics and timing successful conjunction with President-elect Trump’s instrumentality to the White House.

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accused Obama-Biden officials of withholding weapons from Israel to unit them into a ceasefire agreement. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"The Biden medication has spent the past 4 years pathologically obsessed with undermining Israel and boosting Iran, including by coercing our Israeli allies to cede maritime territory to Hezbollah," Cruz noted. "They are present utilizing the modulation play to the Trump medication and a Republican Congress to effort to fastener successful those efforts — and to constrain the incoming medication — by establishing what they judge to beryllium irreversible diplomatic, legal, and subject policies. However, these and akin planetary policies are not irreversible."

Cruz and 10 different senators signed a missive saying the U.S. volition re-evaluate its narration with the United Nations and with Palestinians if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fulfills a pledge helium made to unafraid the expulsion of Israel from the U.N. General Assembly.

Cruz besides said helium joined his colleagues successful vowing to enactment against the International Criminal Court for undermining American and Israeli interests by issuing apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and said everyone progressive successful the determination should look American sanctions.

The International Criminal Court issued an apprehension warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu past week. (Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

He past accused Obama-Biden officials for pressuring Israeli allies into accepting the ceasefire by withholding weapons indispensable to support themselves against Hezbollah, portion besides threatening to facilitate a binding planetary arms embargo done the U.N.

"Obama-Biden officials are already trying to usage Israel's acceptance of this cease-fire to guarantee that Hezbollah and different Iranian violent groups stay intact crossed Lebanon, and to bounds Israel's aboriginal state of enactment and self-defense," Cruz claimed. "Administration officials, including Secretary of State Blinken, contiguous adjacent downplayed Israel's close nether the cease-fire to onslaught violent groups successful Lebanon erstwhile those groups airs imminent threats.

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"These constraints person been rejected by our Israeli allies. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that nether the cease-fire Israel retains afloat state of enactment to antagonistic Hezbollah if the radical attacks Israel oregon tries to rebuild its violent infrastructure," helium added. "The United States should let and assistance Israel successful doing so, and I americium committed to moving intimately with the Trump medication and my colleagues successful the incoming Congress to guarantee they are capable to do."

Fox News Digital’s Luis Casiano contributed to this report.