Firefighters extinguish a burning car at the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on March 28, 2025. (Credit: AFP)
With the ongoing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon and, more recently, in Beirut, the Lebanese people still feel that the war persists despite the cease-fire, albeit less intensely. One of the recurring questions is what purpose the cease-fire, agreed upon last Nov. 27, has served and what the monitoring mechanism has achieved so far. L’Orient-Le Jour takes stock of its achievements so far.Composed of five members — co-chairs France and the U.S., along with Lebanon, Israel and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) — this mechanism is essentially a reproduction of the 1996 tripartite agreement, established following the Grapes of Wrath operation, which the “April Agreements” ended. Its primary mission is to oversee the implementation and monitoring of the cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon, with a particular focus on...
With the ongoing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon and, more recently, in Beirut, the Lebanese people still feel that the war persists despite the cease-fire, albeit less intensely. One of the recurring questions is what purpose the cease-fire, agreed upon last Nov. 27, has served and what the monitoring mechanism has achieved so far. L’Orient-Le Jour takes stock of its achievements so far.Composed of five members — co-chairs France and the U.S., along with Lebanon, Israel and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) — this mechanism is essentially a reproduction of the 1996 tripartite agreement, established following the Grapes of Wrath operation, which the “April Agreements” ended. Its primary mission is to oversee the implementation and monitoring of the cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon, with a...
