Israel’s security cabinet approved a cease-fire agreement with the Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Tuesday.
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Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike on the Dahiyeh district, in the southern suburbs of Beirut on October 16, 2024.
The Israeli government will approve a cease-fire agreement with the Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Tuesday evening. This was announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to which the Israeli army will respond forcefully to any violation of the upcoming ceasefire by Hezbollah. Israel’s Channel 12 television reported shortly before the prime minister’s speech, according to Reuters, that the agreement had already been approved by the narrower security cabinet.
Israel has three reasons for concluding a cease-fire agreement, Netanyahu said. According to him, the country wants to focus on the threat from Iran, it wants to replenish the stockpile of weapons and it wants to isolate Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The conclusion of the agreement on Tuesday was already signaled on Monday by sources from both warring parties and the United States and France as its mediators. During the day, Israel continued its intensive strikes on the Lebanese metropolis, where, according to the Lebanese authorities, at least seven people died.
At the same time, Israeli ministers expressed different views on the cease-fire. It is expected that a 60-day transition period would be announced, during which the Israeli army is to withdraw from southern Lebanon and Hezbollah is to move troops away from the border beyond the Lítani River.
Source: spravy.pravda.sk
