JERUSALEM (AP) — The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants starts after nearly 14 months of fighting. Israeli soldiers reached the Litani river in Lebanon on Tuesday, in a strategic victory hours before a vote by Israel’s security cabinet widely expected to agree a ceasefire with Hezbollah.

The proposed deal is said to resemble the United Nations Security Council resolution which ended the 2006 war, but with more international support to push the Iran-backed armed group away from the border with Israel and bolster regular Lebanese army troops deploying there when Israeli forces withdraw.

A ceasefire deal that could end more than a year of cross-border fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group won backing from Israeli leaders Tuesday, raising hopes and renewing difficult questions in a region gripped by conflict.