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.
Israeli forces killed four people in southern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported, citing the health ministry, in two separate strikes that the Israeli military said targeted members of the Shi'ite Muslim armed group Hezbollah.
Israel has taken steps to help settlers acquire land in the occupied West Bank and widen its powers in parts of the territory where Palestinians have some self-rule - measures they said aimed to undermine the two-state solution.
Kuwait has added eight Lebanese hospitals to its national sanctions list over alleged links to terrorism, according to the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai. The hospitals are all located in areas where Hezbollah is influential: southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
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