Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday dismissed a U.S.-backed push for a 21-day cease-fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon and vowed that fighting would continue, even as Biden administration officials complained that Israel was fully informed of the truce proposal and indicated Netanyahu had agreed to it.

       After arriving in New York for a speech Friday morning to the U.N. General Assembly, the Israeli leader told reporters, “The policy is clear: We will continue striking Hezbollah with full force — we will not stop until we achieve all of our objectives.” Earlier, his office called reports that Israel had eased up on fighting in Lebanon “the opposite of the truth.”