What’s in the potential Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal?

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Israel's wartime Cabinet is set to meet to vote on a proposed U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group.   Despite ongoing Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah rocket launches, negotiations continue.   CGTN’s Jonathan Regev has the latest.  #Hezbollah #Israel

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00:00What do we know about the possibility of this ceasefire deal?

00:08What we know, it seems almost imminent.

00:12It's the Middle East and everything can always collapse and things can always change,

00:17but at the moment it seems that the ceasefire deal is about to happen

00:21and even to be announced in the night hours, in about five or six hours from now,

00:29the Israeli cabinet is set to meet soon to approve the deal.

00:33Yes, there are some criticisms even from within the government and from the general public,

00:38but it seems as if the cabinet will eventually approve the deal

00:42and if that happens we can expect some kind of a statement coming from the presidents of the United States and France,

00:49Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron, maybe even later today.

00:53It seems as if it's about to happen.

00:56And of course the details are not much different than UN Resolution 1701,

01:02which ended the previous war between Israel and Hezbollah back in 2006.

01:06The difference is how can Israel act against violations?

01:10Back then and for 18 years, or 17 years rather, Israel almost did not act in southern Lebanon at all.

01:20Now there's some sort of a mechanism which would allow Israel to act independently in southern Lebanon

01:26if it sees an imminent and immediate threat,

01:29and if it sees a threat that could be applied on a longer term,

01:34there's a committee headed by the United States which Israel could turn to.

01:38If that committee does not deal with the threat, then Israel will be able to act on its own.

01:44This, Israel hopes, will be able to prevent Hezbollah to re-establish itself and regain strength

01:50as many Israelis fear will eventually happen.

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