Israel Set to Accept Lebanon Ceasefire to be Declared on Tuesday, Despite Protests from Northern Mayors

Israel is set to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with the cabinet planning to meet on Tuesday to formally approve the agreement despite the protests of northern leaders and several coalition members, according to several reports by Israeli media.

Meanwhile, the IDF has raised its alert level in several areas of northern Israel, anticipating that the terror group may launch a barrage of rockets just before the ceasefire takes effect, aiming to frame the act as a declaration of victory.

The Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat news outlet reported that U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron may announce the agreement tomorrow morning.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with senior ministers and close affiliates on Tuesday morning to discuss the agreement, ahead of a cabinet meeting later in the day that is expected to grant formal approval.

An Israeli official told The Times of Israel (TOI) that Netanyahu gave the green light after reviewing the final draft of the agreement, which will include a side letter with the United States to guarantee Israeli freedom of action to enforce violations militarily.

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“It’s a Mabam [war between the wars] in Lebanon,” the official said. “We don’t know how long [the ceasefire] will last. It could be a month, it could be a year.”

Israel and Lebanon will reportedly coordinate their moves through the office of US CENTCOM’s General Michael Kurilla, who visited Israel numerous times during the war, including this week.

Despite Israeli objections, the international committee monitoring the ceasefire will include involvement from France. Israel reportedly agreed to its involvement after France assured it would not enforce the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants against Netanyahu, according to TOI.

The reports of an imminent agreement were met with opposition and frustration by several mayors and local leaders in northern Israel, who said they were not informed and remained dissatisfied with the security situation. They demanded the IDF continue degrading Hezbollah’s capabilities in the north.

Avichai Stern, mayor of border town Kiryat Shmona, slammed what he called the “surrender agreement.”

“I call on our leaders to stop and think about the children of Kiryat Shmona. Look them in the eye and don’t risk their fate to be the next hostages,” he said.

“Why don’t we finish what we started?! We succeeded in collapsing Hezbollah, and instead of continuing to crush the organization and pulverize it to the ground, we inject it with oxygen and give it CPR? And where will our residents return? To the ruined city without security and without a horizon?! Has everyone here gone crazy?”

Moshe Davidovich, head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council in the Western Galilee, told Ynet News: “I ask myself, am I living in a dream or am I hallucinating – or is whoever makes the decisions in the Israeli government hallucinating?”

“To create false representations for us, after people have been confined in shelters for more than a year, after children have been peeing in the bed for more than a year, after the mental health here has reached the end of its ability to suffer, is simply a mockery of the dead,” Davidovich added.

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Kan News reported that residents and mayors in the north have yet to receive any details regarding the ceasefire terms.

“Netanyahu, present the agreement,” demanded Benny Gantz, chairman of the National Unity party. “It is the right of the residents of the north, the soldiers, and the citizens of Israel to know.”

On Monday evening, the IDF raised the alert levels along the border, as well as in the Golan Heights. This means that schools will remain closed, gatherings will be restricted to 10 people in open areas and 100 people in enclosed spaces. Workplaces may only operate if a safety shelter is accessible within the required timeframe in the event of a siren alert.

In Haifa and its suburbs, schools will only be permitted to open if students can reach the shelter within the designated time.

Among the first to criticize the incoming truce – but without threatening to leave the government – was National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who called it “a grave mistake” in a tweet on 𝕏.

“A historic missed opportunity to eradicate Hezbollah. I understand all the constraints and reasons, and it is still a grave mistake… Precisely now, when Hezbollah is beaten and longs for a cease-fire, it is forbidden to stop,” he wrote.

Despite the protests, the official cited by TOI stressed that the agreement would still be signed. “There are ministers who speak to their base, and we take it into consideration. But Ben Gvir understands the importance. It’s in Israel’s interest,” he said.

This article originally appeared on ALL ISRAEL NEWS, and is reposted with permission.

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IDF Increases Pressure on Hezbollah, Bombs Over 300 Terror Targets in Hours-long Waves of Airstrikes

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Following a warning to Lebanese civilians, the IDF carried out possibly its largest series of attacks during the current war, hitting over 300 Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley by around noon on Monday.

At the time of publication, the IDF announced it had begun a third wave of strikes in southern Lebanon, while another wave focusing on the Bekaa Valley, where Hezbollah is reportedly hiding many of its strategic weapons, was to follow later in the day.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health claimed that around 274 people had died and over 1,000 were wounded in the strikes, a number that is much higher than previous Israeli strikes in Lebanon. There was no information about how many of the casualties were Hezbollah members.

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The Israeli attacks reportedly focused on Hezbollah infrastructure deeply embedded in populated areas, which may have contributed to the high casualty count.

Among the casualties was Ali Aburia, a senior Hezbollah official, Sky News Arabia reported.

The strikes throughout Monday were of a scope unprecedented since the start of the war, with Israeli media reporting that hundreds of aircraft participated in continuous action for hours on end.

The sound of Israeli fighter jets was heard across the country, even in the Jerusalem area, far from the northern border. The amount of smoke from the explosions in Lebanon was so great that some local councils in northern Israel released statements to calm their residents who worried that fires had broken out near them.

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In an unusual statement following a first wave of airstrikes on Monday morning, IDF Spokesman . Daniel Hagari had warned citizens to move out of harm’s way just before the Israeli Air Force began the second wave of strikes that continued for over three hours.

According to reports in Arabic media, the warnings and subsequent strikes caused thousands of residents to flee north from southern Lebanon. Schools in Beirut stopped classes and sent the children home.

The Minister of Education in Lebanon ordered elementary and high schools to close on Monday and Tuesday in all the districts of south Lebanon, Nabatiya, the Bekaa Valley, Baalbek, al-Hermel and the Dahiyeh district of Beirut.

The Health Ministry also instructed hospitals to halt non-essential surgeries to prepare for an expected wave of casualties.

Around 2 p.m., the IDF released a second warning to Lebanese citizens before the start of another wave of strikes, this time addressing residents of the Bekaa Valley.

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“Urgent warning to the residents of the villages of the Bekaa region in Lebanon. Hezbollah operations force the IDF to act against terrorist infrastructure in your villages,” wrote the army’s Arabic spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee.

“The IDF is not interested in harming you. If you are inside or near a house containing Hezbollah weapons – you must leave it and move away from it within two hours to a distance of no less than 1,000 meters outside the village, or go to the central school near you and do not return to it until further notice. Anyone who is near Hezbollah elements, facilities, and weapons is putting his life and the lives of his family members at risk,” he added.

Speaking against the background of a flood of images and videos showing massive explosions caused by Israeli airstrikes, Hagari said: “The sights that are now seen in southern Lebanon, these are the explosions of Hizbollah’s weapons, which are exploding inside houses.”

“In every house we attack, there are weapons – rockets, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, which were intended and aimed at killing Israeli civilians.”