( Yahoo )
Israel and Hezbollah are closing in on a deal to halt the 14-month-long fighting in Lebanon that could be finalized as soon as today, according to US and Israeli officials.
Israeli media reported that the war cabinet would likely approve a deal on Tuesday, while the Biden administration was decidedly more cautious: “We’re close,” White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said. “Until you get everything done, you don’t have a deal.”
The US and France-brokered truce would bring some much-needed respite to Lebanon, which has been hammered by the war: Some 3,750 people have been killed, and more than a million displaced.
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