Lebanon’s Hezbollah will halt fire on Israel if its Palestinian ally Hamas agrees to a proposal for a truce with Israel in Gaza – unless Israeli forces keep shelling Lebanon, two sources familiar with Hezbollah’s thinking claim.
A temporary truce observed by Israel and Hamas as part of a hostage release deal in late November led to a week of calm across the Lebanese-Israeli border in late November, and as Hamas weighs a new proposal, officials close to the Lebanese terror group believe the same could happen again.
“The moment Hamas announces its approval of the truce, and the moment the truce is declared, Hezbollah will adhere to the truce and will stop operations in the south immediately, as happened the previous time,” one of the two sources close to the heavily armed, Shi’ite Muslim group says.
But if Israel continued shelling Lebanon, Hezbollah would not hesitate to carry on fighting, both sources say.
The Hezbollah media office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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