In Israel, a cautious welcome to a ceasefire with Hezbollah – Libération

The announcement of a truce in Lebanon, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he accepted on Tuesday, November 26, does not delight his supporters. The most radical see it as an admission of weakness, and the families of the hostages as an abandonment of their loved ones.

Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday evening, November 26, that his war cabinet accepted a ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah. If it comes into force on Wednesday morning, it will be the end of an armed confrontation which began the day after October 7, 2023, and which has only intensified since September. On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers, who returned to Lebanese territory on October 1, arrived very symbolically at the Litani River. According to the agreement, this will undoubtedly be, as was already planned in 2006, the demarcation line for the presence of Hezbollah, which will not be totally destroyed, as requested by a majority of Benyamin Netanyahu’s supporters.

The Prime Minister wanted at all costs to pose as the winner. In his pre-recorded speech, he first spoke of the seven fronts on which the Israeli army is engaged. Successes against “head of the octopus”, Iran. He congratulated himself “of the 20,000 terrorists killed in Gaza” et “hundreds of terrorists eliminated” in the West Bank, but also