Israeli security council to meet to discuss ceasefire in Lebanon | Conflict in the Middle East

The Israeli security council will meet on Tuesday to discuss a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon that could end the conflict with Hezbollah, Israeli media report.

The agreement is not not yet finalizedbut the negotiations move forwarddeclared Israel’s representative to the United Nations, Danny Danon, who maintains that the Jewish state will reserve the capacity to strike southern Lebanon, regardless of the agreement.

The vice-president of the Lebanese Parliament, Elias Bou Saab, assured Reuters thatthere appears to be no serious obstacle to beginning the implementation of the ceasefire agreement proposed by the United States.

The American media Axios revealed Monday morning that the two parties had already agreed on the details of this 60-day truce at the end of which the war between Israel and Hezbollah would end, citing a source within the American government.

We are near of an agreement, assured a spokesperson for the White House, according to whom the negotiations are constructive. We believe they are on a very positive trajectory, but nothing is finished yet.

According to a source close to the negotiations cited by the CNN network, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved in principle the agreement, but important details are still to be negotiated.

Mediations are carried out on the basis of resolution n1701 of the Security Council of theHIM which ended the previous war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.

It stipulates that only the Lebanese army and peacekeepers can be deployed on Lebanon’s southern border.

These talks are taking place as the two sides continue to exchange strikes. Israel claimed Monday morning that it had hit around 25 Hezbollah-linked targets in an hour.

A year of hostilities

On Sunday, Hezbollah sent approximately 250 projectiles toward Israel, several of which were intercepted.

Twelve people were killed on Monday, and eight others injured, during Israeli strikes in two areas of the Tire district in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced.

The United States has been pushing for a truce deal to end more than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, which began alongside the Gaza war but escalated significantly over the last two months.

I welcome the ongoing diplomatic efforts to achieve a cessation of hostilities and call on the parties to agree to a ceasefiredeclared before the Security Council the senior official Muhannad Hadi, on behalf of the envoy of theHIM for the Middle East, Tor Wennesland.

After a year of cross-border violence and after weakening Hamas in Gaza, Israel moved the heart of its operations to Lebanon by launching an intense bombing campaign from September 23 on Hezbollah strongholds, which opened a front against Israel in support of Hamas, its Palestinian ally.

With information from Reuters and Agence France-Presse