Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was holding high-level consultations Sunday on a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, amid reports that Israel was going to accept the US-brokered agreement, Hebrew media reported.

The meeting came has Israel was hit by waves of incessant rocket fire from Lebanon and the Air Force carried out repeated strikes on Hezbollah sites in Beirut.

The consultation was held with a few senior ministers and security officials, and, according to the Kan public broadcaster, focused on how Netanyahu should present the agreement to the Israeli public after giving US mediator Amos Hochstein a green light to move ahead with the proposal.

The meeting also focused on Israel’s freedom to operate on the borders with Lebanon and Syria after the agreement is finalized, Kan reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the talks. The news outlet added that Israel had been given guarantees by Washington that it would be able to act if Hezbollah violated the agreement.

According to multiple Hebrew media reports, Hochstein told Israeli officials over the weekend that this was their last chance to move forward with the deal and that if they did not accept it, he would give up his efforts and Israel and Hezbollah would have to wait for incoming president Donald Trump to take office in January before American mediation efforts resumed.

Hochstein visited both Beirut and Jerusalem last week to push for the US-backed agreement that would see Hezbollah gradually withdraw north of the Litani River and the Lebanese Army retake responsibility for southern Lebanon.

Under the potential ceasefire, the Lebanese Army would be responsible for preventing Hezbollah from reestablishing itself in southern Lebanon.

As part of the effort to get an agreement signed this week, former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro was due to arrive in Israel on Monday to facilitate hammering out the final details of the agreement, Channel 12 News reported.

As talks continued on Sunday, Hezbollah stepped up its attacks on Israel, firing more than 250 rockets and drones at northern and central Israel throughout the day, wounding several people.

The intensity of the terrorist organization’s attacks on Israel on Sunday was not surprising, according to Channel 12, which reported on Sunday evening that Israel expected Hezbollah’s attacks to increase the closer the sides got to finalizing an agreement.

The group’s aim, the channel reported, was to demonstrate that it still had the capabilities to attack Israel and to try and deter it from attacking Beirut.

Hezbollah also published an apparently AI-generated photo on Sunday showing damage to a highway from a rocket attack, with a caption threatening that the “fate of Tel Aviv would be the fate of Beirut” if Israel continued to attack the Lebanese capital city.

Hezbollah has long tried to impose a balance of power in a bid to deter Israel.

Israel, however, intended to in turn step up its strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut to damage as much of its capabilities as possible before a deal was made, Ynet reported.

Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.

Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the terror group.

Hezbollah has since expanded its attacks to also target cities in central and northern Israel with rockets, in addition to the attacks on the border.

Israel stepped up its offensive on Hezbollah in Lebanon in late September, launching extensive strikes and operations that took out most of the group’s leadership, including its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel then launched a ground operation into southern Lebanon, with the aim of clearing Hezbollah strongholds in the area and making it safe for evacuated residents of northern Israel to return to their homes.

The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 44 civilians. In addition, 71 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.

In recent days, heavy ground fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah has continued in southern Lebanon, with Israeli troops pushing farther from the border.