Europe 1 with AFP
10.52am, November 26, 2024
The head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, estimated that Israel had “no excuse” to refuse the ceasefire in Lebanon, negotiated by the United States and France. The Israeli security cabinet must decide on this agreement on Tuesday, as part of the war against Lebanese Hezbollah.
Israel has “no excuse” to refuse the ceasefire in Lebanon negotiated by the United States and France, said Wednesday the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell. “Let us hope that today the government of (Benjamin) Netanyahu will approve the ceasefire agreement proposed by the United States and France,” he said on the sidelines of a G7 meeting near from Rome. “No more excuses, no more additional requests, stop this fighting, stop killing people, and let's start thinking about peace,” he insisted.
Israel's security cabinet is due to vote on a ceasefire in the war against Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday, with the United States saying a deal was “close”. “We think we have reached the point where we are close” to an agreement, declared John Kirby, the spokesperson for the National Security Council of the White House, while emphasizing that nothing was yet certain and calling for the caution.
“All of southern Lebanon has been destroyed”
“Let's put pressure on Israel to approve the ceasefire proposal today,” Josep Borrell said on Tuesday, worrying about having “heard statements from extremist ministers in the Israeli government wanting to continue the bombings.” . “A ceasefire is absolutely necessary if we want hundreds of thousands of displaced people to be able to return home,” he said, deploring that “all of southern Lebanon has been destroyed.”
On October 8, 2023, Hezbollah opened a front against Israel in support of Hamas, its Palestinian ally, target of a destructive offensive in Gaza launched by Israel in response to an unprecedented attack carried out by the Islamist movement against its territory on October 7, 2023. october.
