‘Stop killing people’: EU’s top diplomat tells Israel to approve Lebanon cease-fire

“Let’s hope that today, Netanyahu’s government will approve the cease-fire agreement,” Borrell said. “No more excuses. No more additional requests. Stop this fighting. Stop killing people.”

Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged rocket fire almost daily since Palestinian militant group Hamas’ attack against southern Israel on Oct. 7. last year.

Those tensions escalated into all-out war in September, when Israel launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon with the stated goal of crippling the Iran-backed group’s infrastructure along the border and allowing Israeli residents displaced by missile strikes to return to their homes.

The proposed cease-fire will not end Israel’s separate invasion of Gaza, where the Israeli military has continued its efforts to root out Hamas, leaving the coastal enclave in ruins and killing more than 40,000 people.