(21 Oct 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 21 October 2024
1. Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit arriving at Lebanese Parliament speaker’s office
2. Various of Aboul Gheit (on left) meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (on right)
3. Wide of meeting
4. Wide of press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary general of the Arab League:
“I reaffirmed to him (Berri) certain priorities that the Arab league is adopting, first of all the importance of achieving an immediate, stable and acceptable cease-fire and guaranteed, without any deadline as it is proposed here and there."
6. Lebanese flag
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary general of the Arab League:
“In addition to the cease-fire, it is required immediately to work on electing a president for the country.”
8. Cutaway of photographer
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary general of the Arab League:
“The necessity of an immediate withdrawal and a cease-fire, the withdrawal of Israel from any Lebanese territories that were subjected to Israeli occupation or any attempt by Israel to be on Lebanese territory.”
10. Exterior of prime minister’s office
11. Various of Aboul Gheit meeting with Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati
STORYLINE:
Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit arrived in Lebanon on Monday to hold talks with Lebanese officials.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a political ally of Hezbollah who is involved in cease-fire talks, spoke with Gheit about the support of the 22-member bloc during the current Israel-Hezbollah war.
Aboul Gheit later underlined the necessity of implementing the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
Calling for an immediate cease-fire, he also said it was "required immediately to work on electing a president for the country.”
Lebanon has been without a president for almost two years, its legislators unable to agree on a new head of state.
Aboul Gheit later also met with Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas’ surprise attack into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 ignited the war in Gaza.
Hezbollah and Hamas are both allied with Iran.
More than 1,300 people have been killed in Lebanon and over a million displaced since the fighting escalated in mid-September.
AP video shot by Fadi Tawil and Ali Sharafeddine
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