They agree to a ceasefire in one place and not in the other? Have mercy on the children, the elderly and the women.”

Less than two full days into a ceasefire, Israel's military and Hezbollah were both claiming isolated breaches of the deal.

In what might be his final achievement as president, Joe Biden, his diplomats, and their French counterparts have brokered a ceasefire in the increasingly brutal yearlong war between Israel and Hezbollah’s Islamist militia in Lebanon.