After two months of war between Israel and Hezbollah, a truce could be announced in the coming hours. The Israeli security cabinet must decide on a ceasefire this Tuesday, November 26.
While the Israeli security cabinet must decide this Tuesday, November 26 on a ceasefire with Hezbollah, announced as “close” by the United States, the Minister of Defense of the Hebrew state is already warning . Israel Katz said his country would act “strongly” in the event of a violation of the truce in Lebanon.
“If you do not act, we will, and with force,” said Israel Katz, quoted in a press release from his ministry, during a meeting in Tel Aviv with the UN special coordinator for Lebanon , Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.
“Any rebuilt house in southern Lebanon serving as a terrorist base will be destroyed, any rearmament or preparation for terrorist activity will be targeted for attack, any attempt to transfer weapons will be thwarted, and any threat against our forces or citizens will be immediately eliminated,” he said.
The Israeli minister also assured that his country would observe “a policy of zero tolerance” towards any violation of the agreement.
Israel's security cabinet is scheduled to meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the ceasefire agreement. “We believe we have reached the point where we are close” to an agreement, said John Kirby, a White House spokesperson, while emphasizing that nothing was yet certain.
No rocket fire from southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah operates, was reported Tuesday morning by the Israeli army, which said it had, for its part, killed a commander of the movement in an airstrike in the Tire area in southern Lebanon.
A project providing for a 60-day truce
According to the American news site Axios, the ceasefire agreement is based on an American project providing for a 60-day truce during which Hezbollah and the Israeli army would withdraw from southern Lebanon to leave the army Lebanese deploy there.
It includes the establishment of an international committee to monitor its application, added Axios, specifying that the United States would have given assurances of its support for Israeli military action in the event of hostile acts by Hezbollah.
It is based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the previous war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, and which stipulates that only the Lebanese army and peacekeepers can be deployed on the border. southern Lebanon.
Since September 23, Israel has been carrying out massive strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah which, after the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil, had opened a “support front” for the Palestinian Islamist movement by firing rockets into the territory. Israeli. Since September 30, its army has also been carrying out land incursions into southern Lebanon.
