BEIRUT (AP) — A United States envoy said an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after talks in Lebanon on Tuesday. However, there was no such optimism in the Gaza Strip, where the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks by armed men worsened an already severe food crisis.

US envoy pushes for cease-fire in Lebanon as food crisis worsens after looting in Gaza - A United States envoy has returned to Beirut, where Lebanese officials have tentatively welcomed a proposal for

Israeli forces fired two missiles at the Zoqaq al-Blat neighbourhood which houses the local UN headquarters, Lebanon 's parliament and prime minister's office, state-run National News Agency reported.

An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday hit a Lebanese army center in the southern town of Sarafand, killing three soldiers, the army said – the second deadly strike on Lebanese soldiers in as many days.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end the wars in the Middle East without saying how he would do it.

Amos Hochstein, the Biden administration's pointman on Israel and Lebanon, arrived as Hezbollah's allies in the Lebanese government said it had responded positively to the proposal, which would entail both the militants and Israeli ground forces withdrawing from a UN buffer zone in southern Lebanon.