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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would present the cease-fire offer to the Kremlin, which has opposed anything short of a permanent end to the war.

In the 70 days before the cease-fire took effect, Aitaroun lost 51 Hezbollah operatives fighting there and elsewhere in the south, along with 16 women, 10 civil defense workers and five children.

“I think we might get a cease-fire, which then leads to a frozen conflict.”

Among those she lost was her brother, a Hezbollah commander she said was returning home on the eve of the cease-fire that came into place in November.

But the day came and went with only the three releases mandated by the cease-fire terms.