WATCH: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire will have ‘significant impact’ on war in Gaza, Blinken says

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said a proposed ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah would also have a “significant impact” on the war in Gaza.
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“One of the things that Hamas has sought from day one is to get others in on the fight, to create multiple fronts, to make sure that Israel is having to fight in a whole series of different places,” Blinken said at a briefing following a Group of Seven meeting in the Italian city of Fiuggi, outside Rome.
“Now, if it sees that the cavalry is not on the way, that may incentivize it to do what it needs to do to end this conflict,” he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday recommended his Cabinet approve a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
A ceasefire would mark the first major step toward ending the regionwide unrest triggered by Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. But it does not address the devastating war in Gaza.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring peace to the Middle East, but neither he nor Netanyahu have proposed a postwar solution for the Palestinian territory, where Hamas is still holding dozens of hostages and the conflict is more intractable.
Blinken said postwar plans for Gaza had been discussed extensively, adding that it was “something that we’ll be working on intensely over the coming weeks and talking to the incoming administration about.”
Earlier, foreign ministers from the world’s leading industrialized countries threw their strong support behind an immediate Lebanon ceasefire.
The G7 meeting, the last of the Biden administration, was dominated by the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Ministers, however, sidestepped a key question after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israel’s leader over the war in Gaza.