Towards a ceasefire in Lebanon? Benjamin Netanyahu would have approved, “in principle”, the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah negotiated for several days, indicates CNN, citing a source close to the matter. “The two parties have shown their desire to reach” an agreement, reports the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
Still according to the American television channel, the leaders of the Jewish state still have reservations about some details of the agreement. The latter must be transmitted to the Lebanese government this Monday.
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Visiting Beirut on Sunday, the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, called for an “immediate ceasefire”. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, reported a “window of opportunity” for a truce, calling on Israel and the Lebanese to seize it. These statements came after Amos Hochstein, a US envoy, visited Beirut to try to reach a truce agreement.
According to the American news site Axios, the two parties are moving towards an agreement on the basis of an American project providing for a 60-day truce during which Hezbollah and the Israeli army would withdraw from southern Lebanon, to leave Lebanese army deploy there.
The plan, brought to both parties last week by American envoy Amos Hochstein, includes the establishment of an international committee to monitor its implementation, according to Axios. The site reports American assurances to support Israeli military action in the event of hostile actions by Hezbollah.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security and far-right ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warned on Monday against a ceasefire, seeing it as “a big mistake”.
