US envoy Amos Hochstein is in Israel on Monday to discuss a possible ceasefire with Lebanon, where the ongoing Israeli offensive claimed scores of lives over the weekend. Hochstein was in Beirut a week ago, where he conveyed tough Israeli demands for a ceasefire with Hezbollah, which has been trading fire with the Israeli military since 8 October 2023 over the Gaza war. Israel dramatically escalated its attacks on Lebanon, turning the low-intensity conflict into a full blown war on 23 September, wreaking havoc on southern and eastern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut with indiscrimina…