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Lebanon PM says hopes for ceasefire with Israel in 'coming hours or days'

First responders evacuate an injured person following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the industrial zone in the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh near Tyre on October 30, 2024. [AFP]

Lebanon's prime minister said US envoy Amos Hochstein had signalled during a phone call Wednesday that a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war was possible before US elections are held on November 5.

"The call today with Hochstein suggested to me that perhaps we could reach a ceasefire in the coming days, before the fifth" of November, Najib Mikati said in a televised interview with Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed.

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