The American envoy reported on Wednesday in Beirut “additional progress” around an American plan providing for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, on the basis of UN resolution 1701, having ended, in 2006, the previous war between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite movement.
On October 8, 2023, the day after Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israeli soil that sparked the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah launched a “front of support” for the Palestinian movement by firing rockets from almost daily in northern Israel.
For months, relatively small-scale cross-border clashes between the Israeli army and Shiite movement fighters have displaced tens of thousands of residents across the dividing line between Israel and Lebanon. .
Saying it wanted to prevent Hezbollah from carrying out attacks on its soil and with the stated aim of allowing the safe return home of some 60,000 inhabitants of the north of the country, Israel launched an intense bombing campaign in Lebanon on September 23, and seven days later launched a ground offensive in the south of the country.
