{"id":6302,"date":"2024-11-14T04:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T04:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2024-11-14T04:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T04:21:01","slug":"israel-presses-airstrikes-as-beirut-awaits-truce-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2024\/11\/14\/israel-presses-airstrikes-as-beirut-awaits-truce-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel presses airstrikes as Beirut awaits truce ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to Article: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/lebanon-awaits-truce-proposals-after-us-envoy-expresses-hope-2024-11-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 13th, Israeli airstrikes targeted Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs for a second consecutive day, as Lebanon waits for ceasefire proposals coming out of Washington. Israeli airstrikes leveled half a dozen buildings in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh killing eight people, among the eight people were three women and three children. The Israeli military said its air force had destroyed nine Hezbollah weapon storage facilities and command centers in the strikes around Beirut, Israel also claimed that Hezbollah fired forty projectiles into Israel on Wednesday the 13th. Israel reports that a heavy barrage of rockets was fired from Lebanon into Israel sounding sirens, however there was no reported damage. Whitehouse envoy Hochstein is hopeful that there is a chance of truce within Lebanon. The United States and other world powers say a ceasefire in Lebanon must be based on U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 which ended a war between the sides in 2006. The resolution demands that the areas of south Lebanon near the Israeli border be free of any weapons other than those of the Lebanese state. Israel claims that the resolution was never implemented, and that Hezbollah weapons and fighters have been on the border, however Hezbollah claims that Israel also violated this by flying warplanes over its airspace. Lebanese Parliament Speaker Berri, was quoted saying that Lebanon was awaiting concrete ceasefire proposals and had not been informed officially of any new ideas. Israel wants the right to intervene itself to enforce any ceasefire if it deems it necessary, noting the presence of U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon had not stopped Hezbollah from building forces in the area. Israel’s new Defense Minister Israel Katz said there would be no ceasefire or arrangement in Lebanon that did not include Israel’s right to enforce and act on its own against Hezbollah. Several diplomats said it would be all but impossible to get Hezbollah or Lebanon to accept any proposal that included this demand.
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I am curious as to how long Israel and Hezbollah will rage this war, especially because it seems like Lebanon is taking more damage than both Hezbollah and Israel are. I was surprised to learn about resolution 1701 and I find it funny that both sides are blaming the other for violating the resolution when they are both clearly violating it. I was surprised about what Israel said with the U.N. peacekeepers located in South Lebanon not preventing Hezbollah from building forces. I also find it concerning that this war has been going on for a year and most of the causlaties within Lebanon have been within the past seven weeks. I think that this information alone stresses the need to reach a ceasefire within Lebanon, however I think that both Israel and Lebanon are asking for unrealistic things that are making the negotiations more difficult than needed. I am interested as to how the negotiations will shape out, and I also find it interesting that both countries are leaning on the ceasefire proposals coming out of Washington. I feel that this could be because Israel is a major non-NATO ally with the United States and the U.S. is Lebanon’s primary security partner. I think that in this situation both countries are looking towards a more powerful country that they are both aligned with in order to broker some sort of agreeable negotiation. I am interested to see if Israel will change their terms about Israel gaining the right to enforce and act on Hezbollah because this seems like an unrealistic expectation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking through the perspective of Israel, I can understand that Israel is acting this way to ensure that paramilitary groups and terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah do not attack them again, however I do not fully understand why it is in Israel’s national interest to gain the ability to pursue Hezbollah on their own. This puzzles me because Israel’s demand is making negotiations exceedingly more difficult than they need to be, this makes me wonder if this is because of the minimal damage that Hezbollah and Lebanon have been able to ensue on Israel. While I would assume that it is in the national interest of Israel to reach a ceasefire with Lebanon and conclude the fighting, maybe Israel knows that if they do not have the right to pursue Hezbollah, then Hezbollah could strike again later on. Maybe because of this potential threat down the line, Israel would rather keep the fighting going because they have not taken much damage from Lebanon or Hezbollah, but they have caused a much more significant amount of damage to Lebanon. I also believe that it is in Lebanon’s national interest to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible because Lebanon has had at least 3,365 casualties and the attacks seem to be becoming more aggressive. I also wonder if the United States is being the peace broker because the U.S. does not want to be directly dragged into any Middle Eastern affairs. While I feel that it is in everyone’s national interest to reach a ceasefire, I am curious as to whether or not my reasoning could be the reason Israel is being difficult with the negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Link to Article: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/lebanon-awaits-truce-proposals-after-us-envoy-expresses-hope-2024-11-13\/ On November 13th, Israeli airstrikes targeted Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs for a second consecutive day, as Lebanon waits for ceasefire proposals coming out of Washington. Israeli airstrikes leveled half a dozen buildings in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh killing eight people, among the eight people were three women and three children. The Israeli military said its… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}