U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein will travel to the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday for talks on a ceasefire between militant group Hezbollah and Israel, a Lebanese political source told Reuters on Monday.
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U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein will travel to the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday for talks on a ceasefire between militant group Hezbollah and Israel, a Lebanese political source told Reuters on Monday.
Lebanese media outlet Voice of Lebanon also reported the visit, quoting Lebanese member of parliament Kassem Hashem. The U.S. has submitted a new truce proposal to the Lebanese state in the hopes of putting a halt to more than a year of fighting.
The past few days have unfolded like a geopolitical drama of historic proportions in Lebanon, where Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shia militia long considered untouchable, appears to be teetering on the edge of a seismic shift.
Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months despite President Donald Trump telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. was for now unwilling to support such a move, according to an Israeli official and two other people familiar with the matter.
In a defiant speech on Friday evening, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Sheikh Naim Qassem, insisted that the group “will not allow anyone to disarm it,” rejecting growing internal calls for the Lebanese state to reclaim exclusive control over the country’s weapons.
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