Report: Ortagus to visit Israel to press for Lebanon pullout
The Lebanese Army’s plan “involves its deployment in several towns and points in the South which it had not previously entered, in return for the Israelis’ pullback from these points to the border,” diplomatic sources told Al-Jadeed TV.
Al-Binaa newspaper meanwhile quoted informed sources as saying that “the Americans this month will take practical measures that contribute to lowering tension on the southern border through pressing Israel to withdraw from the occupied points and decrease the number of airstrikes on Lebanon.”
The U.S. will also re-activate the ceasefire monitoring committee according to the November 27 agreement in addition to changing its presiding officer and boosting the Lebanese Army’s capabilities, the sources added.
“The Americans have looked into the army’s plan and voiced their opinion on it and they will present it to the Israeli side, which in turn will present its vision for the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the full disarmament of Hezbollah in the South Litani region and from the area north of the Litani, especially from the Bekaa to the Syrian-Lebanese border,” the sources said.
Al-Binaa added that U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus will likely visit Israel in a bid to clench the Israeli government’s agreement to the U.S. paper and to a gradual withdrawal from the South.
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