Ceasefire to end the bloody violence in Lebanon

 

 The Israeli attack caused 4,000 killed and15,700 injured

By: Moammar Atwi

After 13 months of the bloody conflict between Hezbollah and Israel on the lebanese territory, the American administration, led by the Democratic president Joe Biden, has been able to enforce the two warring parties to accept and sign an agreement for a ceasefire within 60 days in order to achieve a stable agreement in the future between Israel and Lebanon. But the irony is this agreement was so expensive, as nearly 4 000 people were killed in Lebanon, and dozens in Israel.

This war that began on 08 October 2023 under the title "Support Gaza", day after the attack that the Palestinian organization Hamas did against Israel on 07 October 2023. 

The Israeli military’s bombardment and ground operations in Lebanon have killed nearly 3,800 people there, and over 15,700 others injured, according to the country’s health ministry.

Over a million people, nearly a quarter of the nation’s population, more than 1 300 000 people, have also been forced to flee their homes. Some of them flee home many times from city to city in Lebanon, or to flee to Syria and Iraq or beyond that.

18 Village destroyed

Hashem Haidar, head of Lebanon's official Southern Council which is tasked with assessing the extent of destruction in southern Lebanon, said there were 18 villages near the 120-kilometre (75-mile) long Israel-Lebanon border had each been "70 percent destroyed", with an estimated 45,000 homes lost.

The Jerusalem Post said on 26 November 2024 that at most points, Israeli deaths were in the dozens, and Hezbollah deaths were in the several-hundred range. Compared to the 60,000 Israelis who evacuated from the northern border in October 2023, and eventually more than a million Lebanese had to evacuate their homes.

 After difficult, intensive efforts by many countries, especially the United States, and despite many obstacles that were posed by Hezbollah and Israel, the American president was able to achieve something before two months of the end of his mandate.Therefore, he had announced the accord of a temporary cease-fire in Lebanon within two months, with a view to establishing a permanent agreement thereafter to end this historical struggle between the two countries. hs, with a view to establishing a permanent agreement thereafter to end this historical struggle between the two countries. 

Full Text 

The full text of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, composed of 13 points as follows.

• Hezbollah and all other armed groups present on Lebanese territory will refrain from conducting any offensive actions against Israel.

• In return, Israel will not carry out any military offensive against targets in Lebanon, whether on land, in the air, or at sea.

• Both Israel and Lebanon recognize the importance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.

• These commitments do not waive Israel's and Lebanon's inherent right to self-defense.

• The Lebanese security forces and the Lebanese Army will be the only entities authorized to carry weapons or deploy troops in southern Lebanon.

• The sale, provision, or production of weapons and related material in Lebanon will be supervised by the Lebanese government.

• All unauthorized facilities related to the production of weapons and related materials will be dismantled.

• All non-compliant military infrastructure and positions will be dismantled, and all unauthorized weapons will be confiscated.

• A committee approved by both Israel and Lebanon will be established to oversee and assist in the implementation of these commitments.

• Israel and Lebanon will report any violations of these commitments to the committee and to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

• Lebanon will deploy official security forces and the Lebanese Army along all border crossing points and the defined line for the southern zone, as outlined in the deployment plan.

• Israel will gradually withdraw from the southern zone of the Blue Line within a period of up to 60 days.

• The United States will enhance indirect negotiations between Israel and Lebanon to achieve an internationally recognized delineation of the land border.

This agreement may lead the international community to press on Israel and Hamas to do an accord to stop this genocide that triggered more than 44,000 killed, hoping to find a solution to the Palestinian question within the framework of the two-state solution or one democratic state for the both peoples.