Which is why an 18-year-old UN-Resolution can solve the Lebanon Israel conflict

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with a possibly upcoming Waffe arrest between Hezbollah and Israel Again an 18-year-old resolution of the united nations is becoming more important as a possible plan to end the conflict. The Israeli Council of Ministers will vote on such an agreement on Tuesday, as a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced to CNN on Monday. The agreement is expected to be approved.

Basic features of the ceasefire

The planned 60-day ceasefire is to implement the UN Security Council resolution 1701, in the hope that it can serve as the basis for permanent peace. This resolution was adopted in 2006 to end a 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon, and ensured relative calm in the region for almost two decades. However, this calm was canceled on October 7, 2022 on October 7, 2022, when Hezbollah attacked solidarity and thus triggered conflict over a year.

The background of resolution 1701

The resolution 1701 requires Israel to withdraw all troops from southern Lebanon and determine that in the south of the Litani River only the Lebanese army and the UN peacekeepers may be present as armed groups. The United States, which is currently conveying between Israel and Lebanon, believes that there is a return to the principles of the resolution in the interests of both parties. However, they urge stricter mechanisms for enforcement. Israel argues that Hezbollah has injured the resolution several times, while Lebanon states that Israel has regularly violated the agreement for over two decades by dispatching fighter aircraft.

a short historical overview

Israel started an invasion in the libanon was attacked by Palestinian militants. Israel occupied the southern Lebanon for almost two decades until it was sold by Hezbollah in 2000, a group that was founded with the support of Iran to resist the Israeli occupation. In 2000, the UN established the so-called blue line , which serves as a retreat for Israeli forces from Lebanon. This limit is now considered a factual limit between the two countries.

The situation since October 2023

on October 8, 2023, Hezbollah began to shoot the Shebaa farms occupied by Israel, which they later referred to as solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a day after Hamas started a comprehensive attack on the south of Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. Israel countered these attacks. Between October 8, 2023 and at the end of June 2024, Unifil reported 15.101 border crossings, with most of Israel to Lebanon, and less from Lebanon to Israel. The conflict escalated and ensured a massive military offensive of Israel and a ground invasion in Lebanon this year.

positions for Resolution 1701

The United States has submitted a proposal to Lebanon that is located in the UN Resolution 1701 and is striving for a 60-day ceasefire. The proposal focuses on stricter enforcement mechanisms and the role of the Lebanese army. Nevertheless, some Israeli officials insist that only a return to resolution 1701 is not sufficient; Israel must keep the right to react to Hezbollah targets in Lebanon if injuries should occur again after an armistice. Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, emphasized the need for "full operational freedom" for the Israeli army in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati showed reports on requirements that the Israeli forces should be allowed to operate in Lebanon as “speculation” and emphasized that he had not seen such a clause on the suggestion. Nabih Berri, the spokesman for the Lebanese parliament and leading politician in an interview with Hezbollah, also made it clear that the US proposal does not include an operational freedom of the Israeli armed forces in Lebanon.

The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Matthew Miller, said that there was an exchange of different views on the complete implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 1701. This underlines the complexity of the existing situation and the challenges that both parties look for while they are striving for a possible peace.