The Israeli Army confirmed this Monday that it had bombed 25 “targets” of the Hezbollah Consultative Council throughout Lebanon, while negotiations continue between the parties for a possible truce agreement that seems close.
The attacks occurred in southern Nabatieh, the eastern Bekah Valley and Baalbek and in the Dahye suburbs of Beirut, according to a military statement, which said that in these geographical points there were “command centers of the Consultative Council” of Hezbollah. as well as control and information collection centers, as well as militiamen.
“These attacks degrade the Hezbollah Consultative Council’s ability to direct and assist Hezbollah terrorists in their attacks against Israel, as well as Hezbollah’s command and control capabilities and its ability to regroup and gather intelligence information,” the report justifies. text.
The president of the Consultative Council was Hashem Safieddine, cousin of the top leader of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, and his designated successor, killed like the second in an Israeli bombing during this war.
“Closer than ever” to an agreement
These attacks occur while Israeli sources assure that they are “closer than ever” to achieving a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, as confirmed to EFE by a source close to the matter, since the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, would have accepted “in principle” the American proposal.
“Very significant progress has been made,” the source said of the proposal that American mediator Amos Hochstein presented to both sides last week on a trip to the region.
Netanyahu held a meeting last night with some ministers and security officials to address the proposal from Joe Biden’s US Government envoy, in which he agreed to accept the draft “in principle” but with “some reservations.”
The source explained to EFE that these reservations have to do with the “freedom of action” over Lebanese airspace that Israel demands in the event that Hezbollah breaks the terms of the ceasefire and the Lebanese troops – who would be in control of the area – do not act. the border – something that Lebanon and the Shiite group reject outright.
The proposal includes three stages: a truce followed by the withdrawal of Hezbollah forces north of the Litani River; a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, and finally, negotiations between Israel and Lebanon on the demarcation of their border, which is currently a dividing line established by the UN after the 2006 war.
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