The attention in Lebanon, Egypt and Israel has been focused on the last two days, among other things, on the contacts to try to create the fire on the border with Lebanon and on the attempts of the US President’s envoy Amos Hochstein To include the cease-fire on the front in Gaza in the cease-fire on the northern front, this even before Ramadan.
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Yesterday the Minister of Defense said Yoav Galant to Hochstein during their meeting that Israel is committed to diplomatic efforts and is not ready to go to war, but senior Western diplomatic sources expressed pessimism about the success of the diplomatic contacts and told the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper that “the political path is not sufficient for appeasement, despite the insistence of the American side to draft an agreement between Beirut and Jerusalem that revolves around strengthening The ceasefire, the resolution of the dispute on the disputed points, finding a solution also to the issue of Havat and Kfar Sheba and formulating a sustainable solution that should prevent a bigger war.”
Attack on Sheba Farm, Lebanon (Photo: REUTERS/Karamallah Daher)
It was also reported that Israel set a deadline and told the European countries that March 15 is the target date to reach a political settlement, otherwise the military pressure will be increased even at the cost of a large-scale war. “Hochstein was hardly convinced that it is possible to stop the fighting in Lebanon before the fighting in Gaza stops, but he is also convinced that Hezbollah does not want an escalation. The American envoy believes that the cease-fire in Gaza will be like zero hour,” the sources said.
It was also claimed in a report in the Lebanese newspaper that Hochstein’s assistant, who remained in Beirut to continue discussions with the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Navia Berry and the Prime Minister Najib Mikati, left the country yesterday. Therefore, in the coming days, Beirut will be on standby for what the talks held in Cairo will lead to, at a time when informed sources feared that the conflict would turn into a wide-scale escalation.