Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the emerging ceasefire deal with Hezbollah “in principle” during a security consultation with Israeli officials Sunday night, a source familiar with the matter said.
Israel still has reservations over some details of the agreement, which were expected to be transmitted to the Lebanese government on Monday, the source said.
Those and other details are still being negotiated and multiple sources stressed that the agreement will not be final until all issues are resolved.
A ceasefire agreement will also need to be approved by the Israeli cabinet, which has not yet occurred.
Sources familiar with the negotiations said talks appear to be moving positively toward an agreement, but acknowledged that as Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire, one misstep could upend the talks.
United States envoy Amos Hochstein said in Beirut last week that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon was “within our grasp,” but that it was ultimately “the decision of the parties.”
He met Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, the interlocutor with Hezbollah in the talks and said there had been “constructive” and “very good discussions to narrow the gaps.”
“We have a real opportunity to bring conflict to an end,” he added last week. “The window is now.” He departed Lebanon for Israel on Wednesday to try to bring the negotiations “to a close.”
The US-backed proposal aims to achieve a 60-day cessation of hostilities that some hope could form the basis of a lasting ceasefire.
On Sunday, CNN analyst and Axios reporter Barak Ravid cited a source as saying Hochstein had told the Israeli ambassador to Washington on Saturday that if Israel did not respond positively in the coming days to the ceasefire proposal, he would withdraw from the mediation efforts.
Hochstein’s trip to the region followed Beirut responding “positively” to a US-backed proposal to stop the war, Mikati said last week, adding that large parts of the draft agreement were resolved.
@PeskyV0terRepublican2wks2W
Trump is working.
@solo-von-kickpaw2wks2W
dang Trump is good (hope Israel gets revenge)
@eXecutiveStorkDemocrat2wks2W
The ceasefire has nothing at all to do with Trump
@DreadfulIdealisticGreen2wks2W
it took having an arrest warrant by the international community for him to finally concede
@6S8SZFKLibertarian2wks2W
That's just to keep the money and weapons flowing into Israel, once Trump takes office, Bibi's acceptance will change.
What the F does it actually mean emerging ceasefire deal "in principle,
Am correct to CCN does journalism “in principle”
@8GK9GFFSocial Justice2wks2W
Get this: Biden called Macron to tell him Netanyahu was right to be angry since Paris had declared it would implement ICC's arrest orders.
So Biden sided with a war criminal and called Macron to complain about France respecting international law...
Joe Biden called Emmanuel Macron to try to shield the worst war criminal since the Nazis from justice. Not only should Binyamin Netanyahu be prosecuted for war crimes, but so should Joe Biden be for enabling them.
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