The ceasefire is a major step toward ending nearly 14 months of fighting sparked by the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

A deal brokered by the US and France offers hope of a stable pause to hostilities that exploded after a year of low-level fighting.View on euronews

The deal aims to achieve a 60-day pause of hostilities in Lebanon, but Biden said the deal is designed "to be a permanent cessation of hostilities.”View on euronews