US envoy Amos Hochstein arrives in Lebanon for ceasefire talks

Top Biden medication authoritative visits Beirut hours aft the Israeli subject strikes the centre of the Lebanese capital.

A elder United States envoy is visiting Lebanon for talks connected a draught ceasefire proposal betwixt Israel and Hezbollah arsenic some sides proceed to commercialized fire.

Amos Hochstein landed successful Beirut connected Tuesday aft Hezbollah and the Lebanese authorities reacted to the substance “in a affirmative way,” but person “some comments connected the content”, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reported from the Lebanese capital.

The medication of US President Joe Biden is making a last-ditch effort for a truce arsenic warring betwixt Hezbollah and the Israeli subject has escalated.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected Monday pledged to proceed to “systematically operate” against Hezbollah adjacent if a ceasefire woody is reached.

“This is simply a nonstarter for Lebanon. They spot this arsenic a usurpation of the country’s sovereignty,” Khodr said.

An adjutant to the Lebanese parliament’s speaker, Nabih Berri, who has been endorsed by the Iran-aligned radical to negociate – told the Reuters quality bureau connected Monday that some the Lebanese authorities and Hezbollah person agreed to the US connection that was submitted successful penning past week.

He declined to outline the comments made by Lebanon connected the draught but said they were presented successful enactment with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which was adopted pursuing the past Israel-Hezbollah warfare successful 2006.

The solution calls connected Hezbollah to propulsion backmost northbound of the Litani River – astir 30km (18.6 miles) from the demarcation enactment betwixt Lebanon and Israel, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanese ungraded and the deployment of the Lebanese service successful the southbound of the state alongside United Nations peacekeepers.

According to Khodr: “Lebanon’s connection is – we are committed to 1701, thing more.”

During a sojourn to Beirut successful October, Hochstein said commitments to the UN solution were not capable arsenic it failed to beryllium implemented since its adoption 18 years ago. He called alternatively for a caller enforcement mechanics to beryllium acceptable up.

“Statements we perceive from Lebanese officials is that determination is cautious optimism, but the world is that determination are large sticking points, particularly concerning a Western-led committee that the US wants to make to oversee the implementation of UN Resolution 1701 – this is not accepted by Lebanon,” Khodr said.

On Tuesday, exigency workers were inactive recovering bodies from the rubble aft the Israeli military’s latest onslaught connected cardinal Beirut that killed astatine slightest 5 people. Hezbollah, meanwhile, launched a rocket astatine Tel Aviv, wounding 7 people.

“These attacks – arsenic good arsenic Israel’s ongoing crushed violative successful confederate Lebanon and the continued rocket occurrence from Hezbollah – are adding to scepticism of the prospects of a existent ceasefire,” said Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem, reporting from Beirut.

At slightest 3,516 radical person been killed and 14,929 wounded successful Israeli attacks successful Lebanon since the Gaza warfare began past October.

Israel’s warfare successful Gaza has killed astatine slightest 43,922 Palestinians and wounded 103,898 since October 7, 2023.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies