The Israeli Cabinet will meet on Tuesday to approve the Lebanon ceasefire agreement, which could be firmed up in the coming days, a senior official said on Monday.
A Lebanese official said Beirut had been told by Washington that the agreement could be announced within hours. Israeli officials had earlier said they were close to an agreement to end the war, although some issues still remained to be resolved, while two senior Lebanese officials expressed optimism about a deal despite the Israeli attacks.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to the terms of a deal to end the ongoing Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Israel’s security cabinet is expected to approve the deal on Tuesday.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that it had nothing to say about the report.
Meanwhile, the attacks also continue. Israeli airstrikes in Beirut on Monday destroyed large parts of the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs. Earlier over the weekend, Israel had killed 29 people in Beirut. Hezbollah had launched one of its biggest rocket attacks on Sunday, in which 250 missiles were fired.
Three journalists were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, an international human rights group said on Monday. This was probably a deliberate attack on civilians and a clear war crime.