John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., told the Washington Examiner he believes the likelihood that the new ceasefire deal, set to last for 60 days, will improve upon the agreement enacted in 2006 is "effectively zero.

If it endures, the ceasefire would end nearly 14 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which escalated in mid-September into all-out war and threatened to pull Hezbollah's patron, Iran, and Israel's closest ally,