Blinken claimed progress in the Lebanese ceasefire negotiation process

According to Isna, at the same time as the trip of the senior advisers of the American Preside Joe Biden, namely, Amos Hochstein, the special envoy of the United States, and Brett McGurk, the person in charge of Middle East affairs, to the occupied territories and their meeting with the leaders of the Zionist regime, Ahony Blinken, the minister of affairs. The US Foreign Ministry claimed progress in “necessary conditions for the effective implemeation of Security Council Resolution 1701”.

Reuters reported on Thursday evening that, according to Blinken, progress has been made in understanding the conditions for the effective implemeation of Security Council Resolution 1701, which “will be the basis of any agreeme to end the Israeli-Lebanon war.”

Blinken said this evening: “It is necessary for Lebanon and Israel to be transpare in order to determine the necessary conditions for the effective implemeation of Security Council Resolution 1701.”

The US Secretary of State also said: “Good progress has been made in the ceasefire negotiations between Lebanon and Israel.”

He also claimed “tangible progress” in facilitating the access of Palestinians in Gaza to humanitarian aid and said: “Despite the tangible progress in sending humanitarian aid to Gaza, it is insufficie.”

In this regard, American Foreign Minister Lloyd Austin claimed that in a conversation with the Zionist Minister of War Yoav Galla, he pressured him to facilitate the process of sending humanitarian aid and its ery io Gaza.

“Israel paid a high price to achieve its goals in the Gaza war,” Blinken stated. “This war cost the lives of Palestinian women and children, and this war must stop now.”

On the other hand, at the same time as Blinken’s claim about the progress in the Lebanon negotiations, the occupied Palestinian publication “Times of Israel” announced the meeting of Biden’s senior advisers with the leaders of the Zionist regime.

The Times of Israel, quoting an American official, reported that today’s meeting between Hochstein and McGurk with senior officials of the Zionist regime in the occupied territories was “constructive, useful and focused on several importa issues, including Iran, Lebanon, Gaza and the release of prisoners.”

According to this Zionist publication, Hochstein and McGurk met with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, Ron Dermer, one of Netanyahu’s senior advisors, Yoav Gala, Shabak head Ronen Bar, Mossad head David Barnia and other heads of the Zionist regime. have met

An unnamed American official told The Times of Israel: “The main focus of the meetings was on trying to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon and the return of Lebanese and Israeli citizens to their homes and the release of prisoners from Hamas.”

Despite the claim of Blinken and The Times of Israel that progress has been made in the process of ceasefire negotiations in Lebanon, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime expressed his opposition to any ceasefire in a speech hours after his meeting with Hochstein and said: “The agreemes, the agreemes of the Security Council, all They have their place, but they are not a priority. Our priority is imposing security, couering any attack and taking action against our enemies despite iernal and external pressures.

On the other hand, from the Lebanese side, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliame, “Nabieh Bari” announced in an ierview with “Al-Sharq Al-Awsat” newspaper that in his meeting with Hochstein, an understanding was reached regarding the clauses of the ceasefire, the deployme of the Lebanese army in the south and the implemeation of Resolution 1701. and the ball is in Netanyahu’s court.

He emphasized: Now the ball is in Netanyahu’s court, and we will see if he is ready to move within the framework that we have agreed with the American envoy, or if he will agree again as in the past?

Earlier, American sources claimed that Netanyahu waed to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon.

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