Amos Hochstein, a top Biden administration envoy to the Middle East, has seldom stayed overnight on trips to Beirut over the past year, so the extended visit may be a positive sign.

US envoy Amos Hochstein to stay in Beirut to discuss ‘technical details’ of cease-fire proposal, according to Israeli official - Anadolu Ajansı

US envoy Amos Hochstein was in Lebanon Wednesday, seeking to hammer out a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, as the militant group battled Israeli troops in the south of the country.

US envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Beirut in a bid to secure a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, as the Lebanese group reportedly approved a new proposal to halt the hostilities, with some comments.

Lebanon is considering a U.S.-backed cease-fire plan while Israel launched new strikes in the area south of Beirut. Senior Lebanon officials are reviewing the proposal and it is based on the U.N. Security Council resolution 1701,

Two Unifil bases were hit by rocket fire and a patrol was shot at, the UN force says, condemning the incidents.

Lebanon's health ministry said Israel struck a densely packed Beirut neighbourhood on Monday, killing at least four people, in the third attack in two days on the city's central districts.Several hundreds of metres (yards) away was the site of a similar strike on Sunday,

Gaza Ali was left homeless after an Israeli air strike destroyed the six-storey apartment building where he grew up, in the Lebanese town of Ain Deleb, killing 73 residents. When he later tried to rent a place in the same town for himself and his family,