Latest effort comes as Israel’s operation against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon continues to expand
Windows are broken in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Haret Saida area near Sidon on Oct. 30.U.S. mediators are working on a proposal to halt hostilities between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, starting with a 60-day ceasefire, two sources said on Wednesday, but Israel pressed its offensive, ordering residents to evacuate Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek.
Bilal Raad, the regional head of the Lebanese civil defence, said the largely volunteer force had been calling on residents to leave via megaphones after receiving phone calls from someone identifying themselves as being from the Israeli military. For a third straight day, Hezbollah reported intense fighting with Israeli forces in or around the southern town of Khiyam – the deepestIsraeli strikes on south Lebanon’s Sarafand killed at least 10 people on Tuesday – most of them women and children – while a separate strike on the port city of Sidon killed at least five people and injured 37, Lebanese authorities said.
U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein, who is working on the new ceasefire proposal, told reporters in Beirut earlier this month that better mechanisms for enforcement were needed as neither Israel nor Lebanon had fully implemented the resolution. The person briefed on the talks said Israel was still pushing for was the ability to carry out “direct enforcement” of the truce via air strikes or other military operations against Hezbollah if it was violating the deal.
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