Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was backing a cease-fire with Hezbollah that would stop more than a year of fighting with the Lebanese militia.

President Biden said the 60-day truce, which the United States helped broker, would take effect early Wednesday and was intended to become permanent, ending Lebanon’s deadliest war in decades.

Israeli warplanes have struck central Beirut, and new evacuation warnings have been issued for 20 buildings in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs