Vhave we achieved the long-awaited truce between Hezbollah and Israel? Israel's security cabinet is expected to decide on a ceasefire in the war against Lebanese Hezbollah on Tuesday, an official said Monday, with the United States saying an agreement was “close.” Also very involved in international mediation efforts, the French presidency affirmed that discussions on a ceasefire had “advanced significantly”, calling on Israel and Hezbollah to seize “this opportunity as quickly as possible”.
These announcements were made after an intensification in recent days of Israeli strikes against strongholds of the pro-Iranian movement in Lebanon, which left at least 31 dead on Monday, according to the Ministry of Health. On October 8, 2023, Hezbollah opened a front against Israel in support of Hamas, its Palestinian ally. The terrorist movement, however, suffered from the recent death of several of its executives, such as its head of propaganda and its former leader Hassan Nasrallah.ALSO READ Netanyahu, military strategist but not politicalAfter weakening Hamas in Gaza, Israel concentrated its operations in Lebanon by launching an intense bombing campaign starting September 23 on Hezbollah strongholds. For example, at least 50 people were killed on Saturday November 23. The Israeli security cabinet “will decide Tuesday evening” on a ceasefire agreement, an Israeli official told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity, without providing further details.
A sixty-day truce
“We think we have reached the point where we are close” to an agreement, declared John Kirby, the spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, while emphasizing that nothing was yet certain and calling for caution, while the return of Donald Trump to power delights in Israel. According to the American news site Axios, the 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, bordering northern Israel, to leave Lebanese army deployed there.
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It includes the establishment of an international committee to monitor its application, added Axios, speaking of American assurances to support Israeli military action in the event of hostile acts by Hezbollah. The mediations are 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 southern border of Lebanon.
ALSO READ Middle East: Iraqi Prime Minister hopes Donald Trump will “end wars” However, the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir (far right), estimated that a ceasefire would be “a big mistake”. Originally from northern Israel, Dorit Sison, 51, also fears a settlement like in 2006, which according to her allowed Hezbollah to “rearm itself”. Now, “they have tunnels, rockets, all possible munitions.”
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