BEIRUT: US envoy Amos Hochstein will hold talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut on Monday (Oct 21) on conditions for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, while Israel struck branches across Lebanon of what it describes as Hezbollah's shadow bank.
BEIRUT: US envoy Amos Hochstein will hold talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut on Monday on conditions for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah , while Israel struck branches across Lebanon of what it describes as Hezbollah 's shadow bank.
US officials are seeking to broker a truce in Lebanon, where Israel launched a ground campaign over the past month and has killed most of the senior leadership of Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia which says it is fighting Israel on behalf of the Palestinians.targeting the branches of an alternative banking system
"Strike, strike, strike with planes and drones, and we don’t know who they are targeting and who will die each day," said Micheline Jabbour, who works in a Beirut pastry shop. Berri told the Al-Arabiya broadcaster over the weekend that Hochstein's visit was"the last chance before the US elections" to reach a truce. But Berri said would reject any changes to the agreement which ended the last major war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.Beirut residents said they had little expectation that the US official's visit would bring a breakthrough.
Austin declined to say whether the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, was operational. But he added:"We have the ability to put it into operation very quickly and we're on pace with our expectations."Israel's campaign in Lebanon has driven 1.2 million people from their homes.
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