The Israeli Government is preparing to approve a ceasefire agreement with the Shiite group this afternoon Hezbollah in Lebanon, although just a few hours before the meeting of the Security Cabinet to vote on the truce, the disagreement between the parties on the possibility of Israel having freedom of action to resume attacks if the agreement is not fulfilled remains on the table.
At 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT) the Security Cabinetwhich brings together the main ministers and the security and intelligence leadership of Israel, will meet in Tel Aviv for, according to sources close to the negotiations, “discuss and approve” the agreement.
Israeli bombings in Lebanon They have caused more than 3,500 deaths in the last year, as well as displaced 1.2 million people. In Israel, 78 people have been killed (47 of them civilians), while some 60,000 have been displaced by the exchange of fire with Hezbollah.
These are the main points of the agreement.
– Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to disarm southern Lebanon in an initial phase of 60 days, during which Israeli troops will withdraw and Hezbollah will withdraw to northern Lebanon. Litani River, complying with the withdrawal of armed personnel from the Blue Line stipulated by UN Security Council Resolution 1701, established after the 2006 war.
– The Lebanese Army will instead deploy thousands of soldiers to the emptied area. The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reports that US troops under the command of the US Central Command (Centcom) will supervise and coordinate relations between the Israeli and Lebanese armed forces during the first days of the agreement.
– The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, the UNIFILwill participate in clearing the area. Its blue helmets have been injured in several incidents with Israeli troops, although the last four, Italians, were slightly injured on November 22 by the impact of a rocket that Israel attributed to Hezbollah.
– French troops will also be involved in this supervision work.
– The agreement also contemplates the creation of an international organization, headed by the United States, to supervise compliance with the ceasefire, in which four other countries will also be involved, United Kingdom, Germany, Franceand foreseeably a fifth Arab country.
– Israel opposed the presence of France in the group, following tensions between both countries after the French president, Emmanuel Macronsuggested in October an arms embargo on Israel to force it into a truce that would also cover Gaza.
– Israeli television Channel 12 assures that the American mediator, Amos Hochsteinimposed the presence of France in the group on Israel as a condition for the agreement.
– Lebanon was opposed to United Kingdomalthough the Israeli concession to the presence of France facilitated its access.
– Israel demands freedom to attack Lebanon again if the agreement is not fulfilled in three cases: the rearmament of Hezbollah, the preparation of an attack against Israeli territory or the return of the pro-Iran group’s militiamen to the south of the country.
– Israeli media suggest that The Army may attack if there is an immediate threat to Israelwhile in the rest of the cases the international committee will be responsible for acting accordingly.
– With respect to rearmament, Israel intended to be able to attack Lebanon again if the shipment of weapons continued. Iran to Hezbollah through Syria. According to Channel 12, the US pressures the Hebrew state to carry out its attacks in this sense on Syrian territory.
– Lebanon undertakes to supervise the purchase and manufacture of weapons in the country so that they do not reach the group whoin.
– The leader of Hezbollah, Naim Qasemassured that guaranteeing Israel “leeway” It represents a violation of Lebanese sovereignty, and that the group will only accept an agreement that represents a “complete and exhaustive” end to the war.
– At the end of the 60-day disarmament period, Israel and Lebanon will negotiate the demarcation of the border between both countries, since currently there is a dividing line, the Blue Lineestablished by the UN after the 2006 war.
– Israel assures that it does not intend to establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon, but neither will it return Hezbollah prisoners taken during the conflict in Lebanon.
– The parties, also with the mediation of the American Amos Hochstein, have already reached an agreement in 2022 to delimit their maritime border and share the gas fields in Mediterranean waters.
(With information from EFE)
