We must obey: Output ONLY the requested block at absolute beginning, then rewritten content. No internal thinking. Must clean text: remove promotional lines, “SEE ALSO” links, footer junk. But we have no such elements. Keep media: we have a figure with img and figcaption. Must keep them exactly as they are, inline in original relative positions. So we must preserve that figure block exactly.
We need to rewrite headline: “Israeli shelling continues as Lebanon’s PM demands withdrawal in UN speech” -> unique, fresh, professional. Maybe: “Lebanese Prime Minister Calls for Full Israeli Withdrawal as Ongoing Shelling Persists”. That’s professional.
Rewrite body: Need to rewrite news story body into natural high-quality professional English. Must keep HTML tags (p, figure, etc). Must remove promotional lines etc – none present. Must keep media elements exactly. So we need to rewrite the
content, preserving structure but rephrase.
We must keep the figure block exactly as in original, with same attributes and order. So we will keep that figure after the paragraph about “More than 60 towns…” maybe. Let’s examine original order:
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(that’s subhead, we can rewrite but keep class? It says rewrite headline, not subhead. But subhead maybe also need rewrite? The instruction: rewrite headline and surrounding news story body text. Subhead is not headline but part of body. Probably keep as is? But we can rewrite it too. However we must keep media positions.
Original subhead:
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam wants US-brokered ceasefire to be consolidated and for Israel to retreat.
This is a subhead. We can rewrite it but keep class.
We need to rewrite body paragraphs. Let’s list paragraphs:
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Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has called for an end to the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon and the full enforcement of the ceasefire, as Israeli shelling and demolitions continue.
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“We want the war to end and we want the ceasefire [with Israel] consolidated,” Salam said in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday.
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As delegates gathered to listen to Salam, on the ground in Lebanon, Israeli forces carried out a large explosion near Taybeh and Deir Siryan, while an Israeli air strike targeted a valley between Froun and Ghandourieh, triggering a large fire.
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Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Froun, said the reality on the ground is that the conflict is far from over.
6. “From the ground here in Froun, we can still see Israeli warplanes and drones flying at low altitudes in the skies above and Israeli artillery shelling is still causing uncontrollable fires. Lebanese civil defence and firefighters are not being allowed by the Israelis to reach these areas and put out the flames,” she said.
7. “More than 60 towns in southern Lebanon are still occupied by the Israeli army, where the Israelis are carrying out a systematic campaign of demolitions,” Khodr added.
8. Israeli forces are “blowing up people’s homes, despite the framework agreement in which there is supposed to be a ceasefire that they have signed with the Lebanese government,” she said.
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Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least 4,386 people and wounded 12,407 others since March 2 , when the current Hezbollah-Israel war started. Since then, Israeli forces have occupied up to 600sq km of Lebanese territory up to the Litani River.
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A US-brokered framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel in June provides for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory and the deployment of the Lebanese army in areas vacated by Israeli forces.
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Speaking at the UNGA, Salam said his government had entered into negotiations with Israel, mediated by the United States and President Donald Trump, “to end the war and restore Lebanon’s sovereignty”, adding that the success of any agreement is measured not by intentions but by fulfilment of commitments.
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“What is required is to complete the translation of this agreement into practical steps within a clear timetable and with a verification mechanism that ensures the implementation of all its provisions,” he said.
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He focused on state sovereignty, saying it “cannot be untouchable in one place and negotiable in another, nor can the rules of international law apply to some but not to others”.
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Salam also pledged to oversee the disarmament of Hezbollah in exchange for Israel’s eventual full withdrawal, also saying “weapons must be exclusively in the hands of the state and that decisions on war and peace rest solely with its constitutional institutions”.
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Stability in the Middle East can only come with respect for Palestinian rights, he said.
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“There can be no lasting stability in Lebanon without lasting stability in our region, and there can be no stability in the region as long as this organisation [the UN] remains unable to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination, like all other peoples of the world,” Salam said. “No less and no more.”
We need to rewrite body text (all paragraphs) into natural professional English, while preserving media positions. So we must rewrite each paragraph content, but keep HTML tags.
We must also remove promotional lines etc – none present.
We need to ensure we keep the figure exactly as is, with its attributes. The figure includes an
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We need to keep all tags, iframe etc. There’s only one tag inside figure. Also a
embed code? There’s a
embed codes mention but none in text. There’s no other media. So we keep that figure unchanged.
We must rewrite headline: “Israeli shelling continues as Lebanon’s PM demands withdrawal in UN