After a marathon of negotiations lasting several weeks, an agreement intended to silence the guns in Lebanon was announced on Tuesday, November 26, in the early evening, during a televised speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This ceasefire plan, which was immediately adopted by the security cabinet of the Jewish state, came into force on Wednesday at 4 a.m., Lebanese and Israeli time (3 a.m. in France).
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The agreement, negotiated by the American special envoy to Lebanon, Amos Hochstein, provides for the establishment of a sixty-day phase during which Israeli troops will have to evacuate the south of the Cedar country, where they entered from 1is october. At the same time, Hezbollah forces will have to withdraw north of the Litani River, around twenty kilometers from the border.
During this two-month phase, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) will have to gradually deploy in the border strip evacuated by Hezbollah, joining the blue helmets of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the number of which should be reviewed on the rise. The FAL is authorized to immediately send between 1,000 and 2,000 men to southern Lebanon, then increase to 6,000 men over the next six months.
“Sustainable restoration of calm”
Lebanese soldiers and UNIFIL will have to ensure that the scenario of the previous war between Israel and Hezbollah, in 2006, is not repeated. UN Resolution 1701, which put an end to this conflict and already provided for a withdrawal of the Shiite militia north of the Litani, had not been implemented. To avoid such a repetition, a monitoring committee, chaired by the United States, will be created, including an already existing structure, the tripartite committee (Lebanon, Israel and United Nations), which had become inoperative since the start of the war. , as well as France.
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The confrontation between Hezbollah and the Jewish state began in the form of a low-intensity confrontation, on October 8, 2023, at the initiative of the Shiite militia, as a sign of support for Hamas, shelled in the Strip. Gaza in retaliation for the attack by the Palestinian armed Islamist movement against Israel. The conflict degenerated into open war on September 23, 2024, during an extremely violent wave of Israeli bombings, which left more than 500 dead in 24 hours.
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