Al Jazeera reported that as the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) expires at the end of this year, future peacekeeping missions may be significantly scaled back, despite strong international and domestic support for the peacekeeping force. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has presented proposals to the Security Council, suggesting that the new force could be reduced from its current size of approximately 7,000 personnel to between 900 and 3,000. Analysts point out that the United States has adopted Israel's stance against extending UNIFIL's mandate, aiming to allow Israeli forces to operate in Lebanon without supervision. Israel and Lebanon have reached a "framework agreement" to establish a "pilot area," but UNIFIL has no role in it, reflecting US-Israeli pressure to exclude it.