The United States has said a UN Security Council resolution that ended Israel's war with Hezbollah in 2006 could form the basis of a new ceasefire, though it would need to be better enforced. - UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was voted in unanimously to end the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, which killed around 1,200 people in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and 160 in Israel, most of them soldiers.