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TEHRAN- Nearly two months after launching a massive bombing campaign on Lebanon, Israel has not succeeded in fulfilling its objectives.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah and Israel began trading fire a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of people remain displaced in northern Israel and southern Lebanon amid the exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
Israel launched massive airstrikes in Lebanon on September 23 this year which was later followed by a ground invasion of the country\u2019s south.<\/p>\n
Israel said the offensive was aimed at removing Hezbollah from the border area and allowing evacuated Israelis to return to northern Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel has killed about 3,500 people in Lebanon since October last year. But it has failed to deter Hezbollah from firing missiles and drones into Israel and return displaced Israelis to the north.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hezbollah said earlier this month that its fighters have killed more than 100 Israeli officers and soldiers and injured over 1,000 others on the Lebanese border.\u00a0<\/strong><\/cite>The Israeli army has also suffered heavy casualties on the battlefield in the wake of the regime\u2019s ground offensive which began on October 1.<\/p>\n A week ago, Hezbollah revealed that its fighters have killed over 100 Israeli officers and soldiers while injuring over 1,000 others on the Lebanese border.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hezbollah\u00a0media chief\u00a0Mohammad Afif, who was assassinated in an Israeli strike in central Beirut\u00a0on Sunday, had already highlighted the failure of Israel\u2019s ground offensive in Lebanon.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAfter 45 days of bloody fighting, the enemy is still unable to occupy a single Lebanese village,\u201d Afif\u00a0said at a press conference in Beirut\u2019s Dahiyeh neighborhood on November 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n He had also dismissed Israel\u2019s claims about the depletion of Hezbollah\u2019s missile stockpiles.<\/p>\n \u201cOur missile stockpiles are complete in the same way that they were on the first day [of the struggle against the Israeli regime],\u201d Afif pointed out as he referred to Hezbollah\u2019s continued firing of projectiles towards Tel Aviv and Haifa.\u00a0<\/p>\n In light of Israel’s military challenges against Hezbollah fighters, the United States proposed a ceasefire to help the regime navigate the complexities of the conflict in Lebanon.<\/p>\n According to Israeli media, the ceasefire agreement would include the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, the establishment of an international oversight committee and the deployment of some 10,000 Lebanese army troops along the border with Israel.<\/p>\n The US ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, relayed the proposal to the Lebanese government last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to Reuters, US envoy Amos Hochstein will arrive in Beirut on Tuesday to hold talks on the ceasefire deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri\u00a0has stressed there must be a guarantee that once a truce is reached \u201cthe Israeli attacks in Lebanon will stop on land, at sea, and in the air.\u201d He has said that without these guarantees, there would be little benefit from a ceasefire.<\/p>\n The US ceasefire plan for Lebanon is reminiscent of the same tactic that Washington has employed in the course of the Gaza war.\u00a0<\/p>\n Israel launched the war on Gaza after Hamas conducted Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, a surprise military attack in southern Israel, which dealt a severe blow to the regime.<\/p>\n In the wake of Israel\u2019s failure to make good on its objectives, which mainly include the elimination of Hamas, President Joe Biden unveiled a ceasefire plan for Gaza on May 31.\u00a0<\/p>\n On June 10, the United Nations Security Council approved a US resolution backing its ceasefire plan which called for ending the Gaza war.<\/p>\n Hamas welcomed the plan but Netanyahu and his cabinet derailed the talks and hampered efforts aimed at establishing a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, the US-proposed ceasefire for Gaza was meant to focus attention away from Israel\u2019s genocidal war on the enclave which has so far claimed the lives of nearly 44,000 Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n Washington\u2019s truce deal for Lebanon is also aimed at diverting attention from Israel\u2019s brutal strikes on Lebanon.\u00a0<\/p>\n The ceasefire initiatives proposed by the United States appear to be mere political strategies designed to extricate Israel from the quagmire of the wars it has waged on Lebanon and Gaza.
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