Israeli military heavily bombards Lebanon as its government prepares to approve ceasefire International

While the Israeli security cabinet is meeting to approve a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon and to announce it before the end of Tuesday, its forces are taking advantage of the last few hours to bomb with unusual violence, including in central Beirut. Also included are areas that have never been seen before. He was the target earlier also. Since the morning, aviation has carried out 20 bombing raids on Dahiye, the southern suburb of Beirut; demolished a building in the center of the capital without any prior evacuation notice (where surveillance drones are louder than ever); and launched the first attack on the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiya, near the city of Tyre. He also issued an unprecedented warning to all “Lebanese residents” that he was preparing to attack “several subsidiaries of Al Qarad Al Hassan”, Hezbollah’s microcredit network.

In just two minutes, eight fighter planes attacked 20 targets in Beirut. The new orders, published by Avichai Edri, an Arabic-language spokesman for the Israeli military, extend for the first time to four buildings in areas of central Beirut. This is the case of Ras Beirut, next to a station and a church; Or Mazara and Zokkaq al-Blat, two schools just a few meters away. Some domestic Shias were displaced by the war. Hezbollah maintained a largely controlled profile during the day, although in the afternoon it launched a dozen projectiles against Haifa Bay, Israel’s third city, and the Galilee.

The Israeli Security Cabinet is meeting at 5:00 pm local time (4:00 pm Spanish time). Backed by the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and senior leaders of the security forces, there is every sign of the ceasefire agreement going ahead, despite opposition from three ministers and mayors in the country’s north, the region most affected by Hezbollah. Drone and missile attacks from October 2023.

The Presidents of the United States and France, Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron, will probably be in charge of making the announcement this Tuesday, with a parallel statement from Naib Mikati, the Prime Minister of Lebanon. The agreement includes a 60-day ceasefire that is designed to be permanent. The Israeli army will remain in the south of the country during this period, where it has been advancing since October, demolishing entire villages and this Tuesday reaching the Litani River, about 30 kilometers from the border. This is the first time since 2000, when they withdrew from southern Lebanon after 18 years of occupation. The decapitated and weakened Hezbollah will withdraw its fighters and weapons south of this river.

After those 60 days, or during that period, they will leave, making way for the deployment of 5,000 Lebanese Armed Forces troops to ensure compliance with their part of UN Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war with the same claimants. Abolished. Troops from UNIFIL, the United Nations mission that monitors respect for the resolution, will also follow suit.

The imminent prospect of a ceasefire appeared at the meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in Rome, who in their final statement showed their support and assured that “the time has come to reach a diplomatic solution.” There, the head of Community diplomacy, Josep Borrell, spoke along the same lines: “Let us hope that today the Netanyahu government will approve the ceasefire agreement proposed by the United States and France. no more excuses. No further additional requests. Enough fighting. “Stop killing people and start thinking about peace.”