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Türkiye welcomes the cease-fire deal between Lebanon and Israel, Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

"We welcome the successful conclusion of the negotiations to establish a ceasefire in Lebanon and hope that the ceasefire will be permanent," the ministry said in a statement.

A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon went into effect at 4 a.m. Wednesday.

What the ceasefire agreement stipulates

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that the Israeli Cabinet is set to approve of a ceasefire deal with Lebanon on Nov. 26, claiming that Israel has a right to respond forcefully to any "violations" by Hezbollah.

Netanyahu stated that Israel will maintain 'full' freedom to act in Lebanon and that the truce will allow Israel to "focus on the Iranian threat."

Twelve people were killed, and eight others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on two areas of Tyre in southern Lebanon today, Monday (25/11), according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health.

Almost 230 health workers have been killed in Lebanon since the outbreak of war in Gaza, most since the escalation of hostilities between the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah in September this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today.

Hezbollah's leader delivered a defiant speech on Wednesday, saying Israel cannot impose conditions for a truce in Lebanon, as visiting U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein headed to Israel to try to negotiate an end to the war.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in a near-simultaneous statement, said any ceasefire deal must ensure Israel still has the "freedom to act" against Hezbollah.

With Israel appearing to expand its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, targeting the group's financial networks, the US is increasingly concerned that the conflict has "escalated out of control," with top officials calling for the enforcement of a UN resolution that ended the previous major war between them in 2006.

Natural gas prices in Europe increased by 2% during early trading on Monday, as ongoing conflict in the Middle East injected fresh volatility into the market. By 1:30 p.m. Bulgarian time, Dutch TTF futures had risen about 2%, returning above €40 per megawatt-hour, inching closer to the 10-month high of 41 euros reached on October 7.

Israeli airstrikes this morning targeted southern suburbs of Beru, eyewitnesses told Reuters, hours after the U.S. warned that it opposes the scope of Israel’s attacks on the Lebanese capital, amid rising death tolls and concerns about further escalation of the conflict in the region involving Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held security consultations at the Defense Ministry Monday night to discuss the response of Israel to the armed attack by Hezbollah drone strike on Sunday and the retaliation in Iran.