ALBAWABA - According to a report by Sky News, citing senior US officials, a temporary 21-day truce deal between Hezbollah and Israel will possibly be implemented in the upcoming hours.
According to officials, the ceasefire would be enforced along the Israel-Lebanon border to give negotiators more time to work for a more extensive ceasefire. It follows a declaration calling for a halt to hostilities from the US, UK, France, and other allies.
A source in Netanyahu's office told Israeli Channel 12 that a temporary truce had been approved in order to begin discussions, while an Israeli source also gave the same statement for AFP.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to X to deny the reports of giving the green light for ceasefire talks, saying that he had yet to reply to the US-French suggestion.
At the same time, CNN reported, citing an informed source, that the Biden administration saw the effort to establish a ceasefire deal in Lebanon as serious and promising.
Earlier, The United States along with the European Union and 8 other countries released a statement calling on Lebanon and Israel to sign a temporary ceasefire, following steep escalation in the last few days.
The US, Australia, Canada, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar described the situation between the two nations as "intolerable" since Oct. 8.
