Building targeted by Israeli bombing in Beirut, capital of Lebanon, this Monday| Photo: EFE/Wael Hamzeh
Sources from international websites and agencies reported that Israel’s cabinet is expected to meet on Tuesday (26) to approve a ceasefire agreement with the terrorist group Hezbollah, with which Israeli forces have been fighting since October 2023.
American news website Axios and Reuters, citing an unnamed senior US official and an Israeli official respectively, reported that a truce proposal is in advanced negotiations and that Tuesday’s meeting is aimed at approving it. there.
A source from the EFE Agency, close to the negotiations, stated that “very significant progress has been made” after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted “in principle” the proposal presented by American mediator Amos Hochstein to both sides. last week during a trip to the region.
The proposal includes three stages: a truce followed by the deployment of Hezbollah forces north of the Litani River; a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon; and, finally, negotiations between Israel and Lebanon on the demarcation of their border, which is currently a dividing line established by the UN after the 2006 war.
According to Reuters, a Lebanese government official said Beirut has been informed by Washington that a deal could be announced “within the next few hours.”
Israel and Hezbollah began a new conflict when the Lebanese Shiite group began bombings in northern Israel in “solidarity” with Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip with the attacks on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023.
In September, Israel, which had already been responding to Hezbollah’s bombings, began a ground offensive in southern Lebanon and intensified air attacks on other regions of the neighboring country. In one of these bombings, the terrorist group’s decades-long leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Beirut at the end of September.