is every edge of a zonotope a generator?

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Given a Zonotope $Z \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, with generators $G \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$.

Every facet is a $d-1$ polytope. And I'm wondering is it true that every edge of the facets is one generator with some positional offset?

Since every vertex is in the form of $\sum_{i \in G} = \lambda_i i, \lambda_i \in \{0, 1\}$, and the edge is difference between two vertices, so every edge has to be some sum of a subset of generators. But does the difference has to be exactly one generator?

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The answer is yes. And here is the proof:

If the edge is composed of more than one generator, one can always add an extra vertex correspondingly.