By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 5 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago
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Israel must in return “stop its attacks and withdraw from areas claimed by Beirut,” declared the Lebanese prime minister.
Lebanon is ready to implement a UN resolution which would distance the powerful Hezbollah movement from the border with Israel, but on condition that this neighbor stops its attacks and withdraws from areas claimed by Beirut, the Lebanese Prime Minister said on Friday, December 22.
The head of Israeli diplomacy, Eli Cohen, said on Sunday that it was necessary “force Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River“, about forty kilometers from the border, either through diplomatic channels or “by force».
Tense situation
Exchanges of fire between Israel and the pro-Iranian Shiite movement have been daily on the border since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, triggered by an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil by the Palestinian group, supported by Hezbollah. . Referring to this tense situation in the south of the country, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said: “the solution exists, it is the application of international resolutions», including the 1701.
«We are fully ready to commit to their implementation, provided that the Israeli side also commits to them and withdraws, in accordance with international laws and resolutions, from the occupied territories.», he added to the press. According to Mr. Mikati’s office, he was referring to territories still occupied by Israel after its withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000: the Chebaa farms, the hills of Kfar Chouba and the village of Al Ghajar. Israel also insists on the need for Lebanon to implement Resolution 1701, adopted to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
This text stipulates that only the Lebanese army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) be deployed between the border and the Litani River. Several Western countries are working to prevent the situation from degenerating between Israel and Lebanon, and are proposing, among other things, a settlement of the border dispute. The violence at the border has left more than 140 dead on the Lebanese side, mostly Hezbollah fighters, and 11 on the Israeli side since October 7.
The only party not to have been disarmed at the end of the civil war (1975-1990), Hezbollah is strongly established in the border areas from where it launches attacks against Israel, even if it has no positions. fixed or visible military presence.
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2023-12-22 17:46:50
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