Live – War in the Middle East: Benjamin Netanyahu will submit a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon to his cabinet for confirmation

Israel's security cabinet is to meet “this afternoon” to discuss the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon where Israel is at war with Hezbollah, Sharren Haskel, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, said on Tuesday. .

“The (security) cabinet will meet this afternoon to discuss this agreement,” Ms. Haskel said at a press conference in Jerusalem, refusing to go into details of the text “given the sensitive nature of the question”. Ms. Haskel also did not specify the time of the meeting.

“There must be (…) a discussion, a decision. There could also be a vote,” she added, suggesting that cabinet members were not yet all aware of the content of the agreement. “Cabinet members know some of the details and need to go into more detail this afternoon,” she said.

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.