Israel-Hezbollah clashes: Lebanese Prime Minister urges UN to call for “immediate”ceasefire
In a direct appeal on Friday, the Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has urged the United Nations to pass a resolution calling for an “immediate” ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah group.
The prime minister re-affirmed his government’s commitment to deploy the army on the border with Israel as part of a cessation of hostilities, and said Hezbollah agreed on the matter.
Speaking in a televised address, he added that Lebanon’s foreign ministry would ask the UN Security Council to issue a resolution calling for a “full and immediate ceasefire.”
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Mikati said his government was committed to “the full application of Resolution 1701,” which was adopted in 2006 and called for the Lebanese army and peacekeepers to be the only armed forces deployed in the south of the country.
Lebanon is committed to “the deployment of the army in the south and the bolstering of its presence along the border,” he said.
“Hezbollah is in agreement on this issue,” he added.
Mikati also denounced attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon as a “crime,” with peacekeepers targeted two days in a row by Israeli forces, according to Lebanese official media and the foreign ministry.
