Israel-Lebanon permanent ceasefire has been accepted, Biden says

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*******-Lebanon permanent ceasefire has been accepted, Biden says

US President Joe Biden speaks about a ceasefire between ******* and Hezbollah in Lebanon, in the Rose Garden of the White House on November 26, 2024, in Washington, DC. 

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******* and Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Tuesday agreed to a permanent ceasefire in cross-border hostilities, following a year-long conflict between the ******* state and Iranian-backed groups.

President Joe Biden announced the deal, which was brokered by France and the U.S.

“Under the deal reached today, effective at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, local time, the fighting across the Lebanese ******** border will end,” Biden said in the White House Rose Garden.

“This is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities,” he added. “What is left of Hezbollah and other ********** organizations will not be allowed, I emphasize, will not be allowed, to threaten the security of ******* again.”

The neighboring Middle Eastern countries have exchanged ***** since October 2023, after ******* launched an expansive retaliatory military campaign in the Gaza Strip in response to a ******* ******* perpetrated by ************ militant group ****** in the ******* state.

“Over the next 60 days, the Lebanese army and state security forces will deploy and take control of their own territory,” said Biden. “And over the next 60 days, ******* will gradually withdraw its remaining forces.”

“Civilians on both sides will soon be able to safely return to their communities, and begin to rebuild their homes, their schools, their farms, their businesses and their very lives,” said the outgoing president.

Earlier in the day Tuesday, ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address that he supported the ceasefire deal, which he sent to his Cabinet for approval.

“The ceasefire allows us to focus on the Iranian threat,” said Netanyahu. “We will complete the elimination of ******, the return of all the hostages and the return of the residents of the north.”

Hezbollah has attributed its hostilities to solidarity with ************ civilians, while ******* has cited the right to self defense. The cross-border conflict has intensified since the summer, with ******* carrying out airstrikes that ******* Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in late September, then proceeding with a ground invasion on Oct. 1.

Hostilities had continued on Tuesday amid the diplomatic overtures, with ******** military spokesperson Avichay Adraee announcing the ******* state was “extensively” attacking Hezbollah targets in Beirut in a

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Hezbollah, meanwhile, carried out missile strikes against an infantry training camp in Shavei Tzion in northern *******, according to Hezbollah-aligned media outlet Al-Manar.

Speaking to the U.N. special envoy to Lebanon, ******** Defense Minister ******* Katz called for “effective enforcement” from the U.N. if a ceasefire was implemented.

He warned in a

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-translated statement from his office that the ******* state will “act against any threat, anytime and anywhere” and that “every house in southern Lebanon that is rebuilt and in which a ********** base is established will be demolished, every ********** arming and organization will be attacked, every attempt to smuggle weapons will be thwarted, and every threat to our forces or ******** citizens will be immediately destroyed.”

The diplomatic breakthrough had been widely called for in the international community, which has repeatedly also urged for an end to offensives in the Gaza Strip to rein in the growing humanitarian crisis. ******* and ****** previously honored a roughly week-long truce in November last year.

“On the proposal agreement brokered by the U.S. and France, ******* has all security concerns (addressed),” the ********* Union’s outgoing foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters in Italy early on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.  

“There is not an excuse for not implementing a ceasefire. Otherwise, Lebanon will fall apart.”

 This breaking news story is being updated.

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