An emergency worker picks up suspected body parts and puts them into a plastic bag as a member of the Lebanese civil defense searches for human remains in the rubble of a residential building where eight people were killed in an early-morning Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese village of Aramoun on Nov. 13. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post)

The envoy, Amos Hochstein, said an end to the fighting was “within our grasp” after meeting in Beirut with Lebanon’s Parliament speaker, a key interlocutor with Hezbollah.

A senior U.S. mediator said on Tuesday there was a "real opportunity" to end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and that gaps were narrowing, signalling progress in Washington's efforts to clinch a ceasefire.