UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief has proposed three options to help end the decades-old conflict between Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militants and Israel when the 8,100-member U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon ends on Dec. 31.
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All of the options presented to the U.N. Security Council by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would continue U.N. military monitoring of the boundary between Israel and Lebanon, support Lebanese forces in deploying throughout the country and strengthen political efforts to end the fighting, which has persisted despite a nominal ceasefire.
U.N. peacekeepers have played a significant role in monitoring the security situation in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, for decades. Six of the peacekeepers have been killed in recent months.
Bowing to demands from the United States and its close ally Israel, the Security Council voted unanimously in August 2025 to terminate the peacekeeping mission known as UNFIL and asked Guterres to present options for implementing a 2006 resolution that ended a monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The resolution demands that Hezbollah disarm, Israeli forces withdraw and the Lebanese army deploy throughout the country as the sole military force. None of this has happened.
In his letter to the Security Council on Monday, Guterres said the recurring hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah show the imperative of implementing the 2006 resolution, which is the framework toward peace.
The secretary-general said U.N. military monitoring of the U.N.-drawn boundary between Israel and Lebanon, known as the Blue Line, was “paramount.”
Under all options, he said, “a uniformed United Nations presence working to facilitate de-escalation, dialogue, liaison and coordination, and support for the Lebanese Armed Forces would be necessary.” The U.N. military would complement the strengthened U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon, who would continue to lead efforts to implement the 2006 resolution.
Guterres proposed three options for the U.N. military force, ranging from 5,525 to 1,980 personnel, including some unarmed military observers. He said the largest force would be able “to most credibly observe developments along the length of the Blue Line.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters Tuesday that the secretary-general hopes the Security Council will make a decision soon.
Guterres is a communist antisemite
Here is suggestion for Mr Gutirres: take a long walk on a short pier.
If he drops dead it will be a step closer to peace
Just talk but no substance. The blue line was the main problem or the fact that hisblabla 🙂 didn’t disarm and the Lebanese army didn’t deploy. What is he offering now that would make a difference.
Nothing.
Unless he is getting lots of cash behind the scenes from those that benefit from his nonsense, what is he actually doing at the UN?
People thinking terrorists abide by resolutions of the UN and that they can be reasoned with, always amazes me that such stupidity exists
Guterres would have happily continued “monitoring the security situation” in Auschwitz, while Jews were gassed daily.
This war could be over tomorrow
Hezbolla stop attacking
War over. Period
israel was the only party to implement its obligations under unscr 1701. guterres is flogging a 20-year-old dead horse.
Guterre and the UN are the problem not the solution
, you’re terorists sympathising , and participating
I’ve got the perfect summer
Bomb their rails
Transportation
Airports
Their house of Leadership
Boycot their products
Bomb their oil fields- destroy their country completely
Let it lie in desolation and despair
Only aerial bombs
No wasting holy Jews
All Jews are Holy
That’s it
I live in E.Y.
Bring the Geulah now
May the goyim shiver in fear and pee in their pants at the mere thought of God forbid harming a Jew!
Do it
NOW