Washington has proposed sponsoring the “comprehensive military structure in south Lebanon for years to come” once a solution is reached for the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel has quoted sources as saying.

“There is an American-European desire to assist the Lebanese Army financially pending the presence of a comprehensive plan,” the sources said.

The sources, however, said that Paris and Washington “are not coordinating their stances on south Lebanon” and that “Washington has informed the Lebanese that it is incapable of preventing a war.”

Border tensions between Hezbollah and Israel have de-escalated in the past few days during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan as international mediators push for a truce in Gaza. It is still not clear whether a Gaza ceasefire would apply to Lebanon.