US President Joe Biden announced a 60-day truce deal between Israel and Lebanon, aimed at ending a year-long conflict. The agreement, negotiated by US mediator Amos Hochstein, includes a withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon within 60 days, approved by Israel and Lebanon, and welcomed by Hezbollah.
early on Nov 27 as part of a US-proposed deal for a 60-day truce to end more than a year of hostilities.
The senior Lebanese source said Israel was expected to “stop carrying out any military operations against Lebanese territory, including against civilian and military targets, and Lebanese state institutions, through land, sea and air”. A Lebanese official told Reuters the deal included language that preserved both Lebanon's and Israel's rights to self-defence.Hezbollah fighters will leave their positions in southern Lebanon to move north of the Litani River, which runs about 30km north of the border with Israel.
"The deployment is the first challenge - then how to deal with the locals that want to return home," given the risks of unexploded ordnance, the source said. Israel would be expected to flag possible breaches to the monitoring mechanism, and France and the US together would determine whether a violation had taken place, an Israeli official and a Western diplomat told Reuters.
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