Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has appeared to encourage Tehran to convince Hezbollah, which it supports, to agree to a deal that could require the militant group to withdraw from the Israel-Lebanon border.
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00:00Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mekati has appealed to Iran for help to broker a
00:07ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.
00:10Iran is Hezbollah's main backer and is believed to have significant sway over the group.
00:15Mekati told a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Beirut wants to see an end
00:20to the war.
00:21A Lebanese official confirmed that Beirut had received a draft proposal from the American
00:26ambassador based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the last Israel-Hezbollah
00:32war in 2006.
00:35Hezbollah officials are said to be studying it.
00:39Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas' surprise attack
00:43on Israel on 7 October last year.
00:46Israel escalated its strikes in Lebanon in late September, vowing to cripple Hezbollah
00:51and end its barrages on Israel, and launched a ground operation into the country.