Lebanon’s PM urges UN resolution on ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati urges the United Nations to pass a resolution calling for an “immediate” ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group.

In a televised address, Mikati emphasized his government’s commitment to deploy the army on the border with Israel as part of a cessation of hostilities and said Hezbollah agreed on the matter.

Mikati says Lebanon’s foreign ministry would ask the UN Security Council to issue a resolution calling for a “full and immediate ceasefire.”

He says his government was committed to “the full application of Resolution 1701,” which calls for the Lebanese army and peacekeepers to be the only armed forces deployed south of the country.

Lebanon is committed to “the deployment of the army in the south and the bolstering of its presence along the border,” he says.

“Hezbollah is in agreement on this issue,” he adds.

A government source had previously told AFP that Hezbollah informed Lebanese authorities it had accepted a ceasefire with Israel on September 27, the day an Israeli strike killed its leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Mikati also condemned attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon as a “crime”, with peacekeepers targeted two days in a row by Israeli forces, according to Lebanese official media and the foreign ministry.