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At the signing ceremony a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon in Washington on Friday, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the agreement as “the beginning of the beginning”.

“There’s a lot of work ahead,” Rubio said. “Today is the first step. The first step is sometimes the hardest.”

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The US interrupted the talks, which began in April, and signed the tripartite agreement.

But the text of the agreement has not been officially published, and Israel continues to occupy a large area of ​​southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Israel seems to indicate that it will continue to attack the country if it deems it necessary.

The country has been fighting the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah group since October 2023, with varying degrees of intensity, and has killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon since March.

What do we know about the content of the agreement?

Rubio said in a statement agreement “It sets out a clear path to restoring Lebanon’s sovereignty, disarming (Hezbollah) and removing its terrorists, and allowing Israel to return to its borders once the threat to its citizens is removed”.

“It also creates a Tripartite Military Coordination Group in Lebanon … allowing the two sides to implement the Plan,” he added.

Meanwhile, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam wrote on social media that the agreement “aims to achieve the withdrawal of Israel from all parts of Lebanon”.

But he added that the agreement was a continuation of previous agreements and United Nations resolutions that said the Lebanese army would have control over all parts of Lebanon – a challenge to Israel and Hezbollah.

News reports are out, revealing details of the frame deal.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israel had agreed to withdraw from two areas in southern Lebanon. One site is north of the “Yellow Line”, an Israeli-controlled military zone that runs about 10 kilometers into Lebanon, and the other is inside the Yellow Line.

Axios reported the same thing. It identified the areas as “testing positions” where the Lebanese army could deploy after the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area.

Al Jazeera could not confirm this, but Reuters reported that Israeli and Lebanese officials denied the reports.

What is the military situation in Lebanon?

Israel has destroyed villages and towns in southern Lebanon, where it has focused its protests.

It has also targeted the Lebanese capital Beirut and the eastern Bekaa valley in recent weeks, saying it is targeting Hezbollah.

A ceasefire agreed at the previous Israeli-Lebanon talks in Washington has led to a slight loss of the fighting, but Israel has not stopped fighting and continues to occupy one-fifth of Lebanon.

On Friday, the day the framework agreement was signed, an Israeli airstrike he is said to have killed two people in the town of Mayfadoun, and Israel also carried out airstrikes in the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa. The Israeli army also dropped leaflets asking people to leave the city of al-Mansouri.

Hezbollah and Israeli fighters have also continued to fight each other from time to time.

However, the Lebanese army has denied to Al Jazeera that Israel has captured the Ali al-Taher Heights in southern Lebanon, insisting that there has been no progress on Israel’s part.

Will this deal bring peace?

At the end of the day, this is a basic question: Israel is at war with Lebanon and Hezbollah.

While Israel and Lebanon are neighbors, they have been at war since 1948, when Israel was founded on historic Palestine.

Israel fought several wars against Lebanon, and occupied southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the war in Lebanon is to protect northern Israel from invasion. He insists that the current agreement will not see Israeli forces withdraw from Lebanon “as long as Hezbollah is not disarmed and as long as there is a threat to the State of Israel”.

For his part, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the agreement is “the first step on the road to Lebanon regaining its sovereignty over all its territories”.

He also called it “the beginning of the way for refugees to return to their liberated villages under the control of the Lebanese state”.

Hezbollah was not present at the talks in Washington, DC. And yet, it also has a say in every action, even if it’s not on the negotiating table.

The group has insisted that Israel must withdraw from Lebanon unconditionally, and Secretary-General Naim Qassem has said that there should be no “settlement” with Israel.

Hezbollah’s position is that Israel cannot be trusted and must maintain its weapons to fight Israel if the Lebanese army cannot. Hezbollah’s member of parliament, Hassan Fadlallah, said that any attempt by the Lebanese army to implement the agreement reached in Washington would lead to “civil war”.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials – including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – have suggested that Israel may remain in Lebanon for a long time.

“We are here until Hezbollah disarms, and I think beyond that, because we need a secure border,” Smotrich said earlier this week.