A very fragile ceasefire has come into force on the night of November 26 to 27, at 3 a.m. French time. It is for the moment respected and provides for the Israeli army and Hezbollah to gradually withdraw from their position in the south of the country.
France and the United States worked together to obtain this agreement. The latter states that Lebanese forces have 60 days to gradually establish peace, zone by zonefollowing a geographical division of southern Lebanon. All this under the supervision of the Americans and the French.
If there is friction, the Americans and French will try to resolve the differences. But on the ground, it is the Lebanese soldiers who will act. There are only 4,000 of them today, they should soon be 1,500 more and 6,000 more in the longer term, with means to clear mines and safely reopen roads.
For this mission, they will need training, weapons, fuel, food, all this financed in part by France, with the United States, Italy and other partners. France which also participates in UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping forces, men in support of the Lebanese forces. At the political level, Jean-Yves Le Drian was sent, Wednesday, November 27, by Emmanuel Macron to Beirut to help with the election of a president of the Lebanese Republic.
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