04/23/2026 – 05:34
Lebanon to ask to extend truce during talks with Israel in Washington
Israel and Lebanon are holding a new session of talks at ambassadorial level in Washington on Thursday, under the aegis of the United States, during which Beirut wants to request a one-month extension of the truce in force since April 17.
Israel affirmed before these discussions that it had no “serious disagreements” with Lebanon, calling on it to “work together” against the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, largely absent from these discussions to which it is opposed.
The two countries, still in a state of war, had already held a meeting on April 14 in Washington, the first of its kind since 1993, to try to end the war into which Lebanon was dragged on March 2 by Hezbollah fire against Israel. The United States then announced a ten-day truce in this conflict, which has already left more than 2,400 dead and a million displaced on the Lebanese side.
As in the previous session, the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, will bring together the ambassadors to the United States of Israel, Yechiel Leiter, and of Lebanon, Nada Hamadeh Moawad, in the presence of the American ambassador to Lebanon, Michel Issa. The American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is expected to join the meeting this time, a State Department official told AFP.
04/23/2026 – 05:33
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Originally published at Almouwatin.com
