Israel 'moving forward' on possible Hezbollah cease-fire, official says

Israel is "moving forward" connected a possible cease-fire deal with Hezbollah terrorists successful Lebanon, 1 Israeli authoritative said Monday. 

The Israeli premier minister's bureau told Fox News connected Monday that they person nary update connected the cease-fire talks for now. Israeli media is besides reporting that the Israeli Security Cabinet volition convene connected Tuesday to sermon the matter.

"We person not finalized it, but we are moving forward," Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told reporters extracurricular the U.N. Security Council.

A elder U.S. authoritative told Axios connected Monday that Israel and Lebanon reached a cease-fire deal, but neither enactment has formally announced immoderate finalized agreement. 

The Israeli Security Cabinet is expected to ballot connected the statement Tuesday, the U.S. authoritative told Axios.

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Smoke rises aft an Israeli airstrike connected Dahiyeh, successful the confederate suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Meanwhile, the Pentagon's apical Middle East argumentation official, Dan Shapiro, traveled to Israel and met with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz successful Tel Aviv connected Monday, according to Axios and the Times of Israel.

Israel’s subject has killed astir each of Hezbollah's apical leaders, but the violent radical continues to occurrence missiles into Israel. Tens of thousands of Israelis who were evacuated from the borderline months agone are pressuring their authorities successful bid to spell home. 

"Israel went to warfare successful the northbound with the extremity of bringing its residents back, portion Hezbollah’s extremity was to unit Israel into a cease-fire successful Gaza," Amit Segal, the main governmental expert for Israel Ch. 12, told Fox News Digital. "If Israel succeeded and Hezbollah failed, it means that Israel won the battle. I expect that Netanyahu volition contiguous the statement to his voters arsenic a impermanent cease-fire for the purposes of rearming, regrouping, and waiting for a Trump administration." 

A antheral stands successful beforehand of a destroyed gathering aft Sunday's Israeli airstrike successful Dahiyeh, successful Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Following the latest sojourn to the portion by a U.S. mediator, Israel deed cardinal Beirut implicit the weekend, and Hezbollah responded with its biggest barrage successful weeks arsenic each applied unit to scope a deal.

The caller gathering betwixt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein was reportedly analyzable by quality that the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to contented apprehension warrants for Netanyahu and his erstwhile defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Lebanon had wanted France to mediate the agreement, but negotiations soured erstwhile the French Foreign Ministry announced it would comply with the ICC ruling. 

President Biden spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron, informing him against trying to mediate a woody portion simultaneously pledging to apprehension the caput of authorities of 1 of the progressive parties, a U.S. authoritative told Axios. 

Israel and Hezbollah person exchanged occurrence astir regular since the time aft Hamas terrorists attacked Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, mounting disconnected the warfare successful Gaza.

Israel launched a wide bombardment of Lebanon 2 months ago, past a crushed invasion. More than 3,500 radical successful Lebanon person been killed, according to The Associated Press. 

The connection nether treatment to extremity the warring betwixt Israel and Hezbollah calls for an archetypal two-month cease-fire during which Israeli forces would retreat from Lebanon and Hezbollah would extremity its equipped beingness on the confederate borderline southbound of the Litani River.

Israeli forces inspect a tract pursuing a rocket fired from Lebanon deed an country successful Rinatya, connected outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The withdrawals would beryllium accompanied by an influx of thousands much Lebanese service troops, which person been mostly sidelined successful the war, to patrol the borderline country on with an existing U.N. peacekeeping force.

An planetary committee would beryllium acceptable up to show implementation of the cease-fire statement and of U.N. Security Council solution 1701, which was passed successful 2006 to extremity a month-long warfare betwixt Israel and Hezbollah but ne'er afloat implemented. Hezbollah ne'er ended its beingness successful confederate Lebanon, portion Lebanon said Israel regularly violated its airspace and occupied tiny patches of its territory.

It is not wide whether a caller woody would beryllium immoderate much palmy than the 1 successful 2006.

Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, told Israeli Army Radio connected Monday that the woody aimed to amended surveillance and enforcement of the erstwhile resolution. While helium said determination were inactive definite points that needed to beryllium finalized, a woody was adjacent and could beryllium secured "within days."

A U.S. authoritative told the AP that negotiations continued to advancement connected Sunday, but the parties inactive needed to enactment retired immoderate outstanding issues to adjacent the deal. 

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The official, who insisted connected anonymity to sermon the backstage talks, declined to item the outstanding issues.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.