Israel, Lebanon launch US-mediated talks to solve border disputes

Is Israel about to make peace with Lebanon?

(JTA) — Six months ago, the notion of peace between Israel and Lebanon seemed remote, if not impossible. At that point, Hezbollah and Israel had been exchanging fire for nearly a year. The border region between the two countries was ravaged — with a rising death toll and masses of civilians evacuated. By September’s end, Israeli troops would cross over, marking the third time Israel had invaded Lebanon since 1982. And yet, Israeli and Lebanese n…

How a Line on a Map Fanned the Flames of a Middle Eastern Conflict

In November 2024, a ceasefire agreement brought a fragile and precarious state of calm to the border between Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon and Israel, after more than a year of cross-border military engagement that had escalated to become a full-blown conflict from September. According to a memorandum of understanding published by the United States and France, the U.S., in partnership with the United Nations, will facilitate indirect tal…

Israel and Lebanon are set for border talks

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to start talks “as soon as possible” on their disputed land border nearly four months after a ceasefire ended the most recent war between the two countries. The Netanyahu and Trump administrations announced on Tuesday that Israel, Lebanon, France, and the US would establish working groups to negotiate the Israel-Lebanon border, the presence of Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, and the release of Lebanese detainee…

The talks in Naqura between Israeli, Lebanese, American and French militaries “aim to disarm Hezbollah,” one of the terrorist movement’s leading spokesmen wrote on Wednesday, warning that this could lead to civil war.

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‘Overblown’ reports on Israel-Lebanon normalization risk hindering border talks before they begin: official

FIRST ON FOX: Reports that surfaced on Wednesday suggesting Israel and Lebanon were pursing "normalization" ties have been "overblown" and risk hurting actual hard-fought discussions, a U.S. official familiar with the talks told Fox News Digital.Israeli reports, citing an anonymous senior Israeli official, claimed that renewed talks with Lebanon were aimed at reaching a standard diplomatic relationship between the two nations, just months after …