Beirut, Lebanon – Israel’s Prime Minister has announced that his security cabinet approved a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, through the Lebanese government.Once it is in force, the agreement stands to end more than a year of violence that began when Hezbollah began launching strikes at Israel on October 8, 2023, saying it would continue as long as Israel conducted its war on the people of Gaza.
Since October 2023, Israel has uprooted 1.2 million people in Lebanon and killed 3,768, most of them killed in the past two months.
Hezbollah – and its Lebanese rivals and allies – support an end to the war, but what are the terms of the ceasefire, where is it at right now, and will it hold?
Here’s what we know:
Has the ceasefire started?
In a televised address on Tuesday evening, Netanyahu said he would recommend that his full cabinet agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah.
US President Joe Biden will speak on Tuesday to provide more details about the draft truce.
The Lebanese government will meet to endorse the deal on Wednesday.
The ceasefire can then go into effect.
What does the ceasefire involve?
Israeli troops would withdraw from southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah would pull back north of the Litani River, ending its presence in the south.
This would take 60 days, and the Lebanese army, which has largely remained a bystander in the current war, would deploy to the south to monitor the ceasefire.
An international task force headed by the United States that inc …