Report: Temporary Israel-Hezbollah truce sought after previous talks collapsed

Inflexible stances by Israel and Hezbollah have torpedoed a comprehensive solution for the current escalation and made efforts instead focus on a “temporary ceasefire” that would give a chance to further negotiations, an informed Lebanese source said.

“The previously proposed solution had called for issuing a U.N. resolution that would have laid out a new executive mechanism for Resolution 1701 … but Hezbollah’s insistence on linking the plan to a ceasefire in Gaza, and Israel’s rejection to link between them, torpedoed the proposed solution,” the source added.

Describing the current negotiations as “plan B,” the source hoped there will be an agreement on the plan, “which calls for a three-week temporary ceasefire during which there would be a negotiations process led by U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein, who would shuttle between Beirut and Tel Aviv.”