US gives draft ceasefire proposal to Lebanon
The US ambassador to Lebanon gave a draft truce proposal to the speaker of Lebanon's parliament, Nabih Berri, on Thursday, Reuters reported.
"It is a draft to get observations from the Lebanese side," a source told Reuters.
A Biden administration plan calls for a beefed-up UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, the Lebanese army deployed to the country’s southern heartland of Hezbollah, and Israel being granted more freedom to operate in Lebanon, sources familiar with the talks have told Middle East Eye
"Basically, it would turn Lebanon into Syria," a former senior US official in Trump’s previous administration, who is familiar with the talks, told MEE.
"Israel could operate at will if it feels threatened as it does in Syria, but Hezbollah wouldn't surrender its de facto power over government, like Bashar Assad."