The US will host a new series of talks between Lebanon and Israel, a State Department official confirmed to Agence France-Presse on Monday.<\/p>\n
“We continue to facilitate talks, directly and in good faith, between the two governments<\/b>,” said this source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, clarifying that they would be held again at the ambassadorial level, as well as the first round on April 14.<\/p>\n
Lebanese President Zozef Aoun<\/b> said yesterday that direct negotiations with Israel – which Hezbollah – are aimed at ensuring an end to the protracted war and the Israeli occupation of sectors of the south of the country.<\/p>\n
While a ceasefire<\/b> has been in place since Friday between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese national news agency ANI reported that an Israeli airstrike<\/b> was carried out by an unmanned aerial drone in the south, in Qakayyat al-Jisr, on a bank of the Litani River.<\/p>\n
The 10-day ceasefire was announced after a meeting last week between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the US, the first in decades.<\/p>\n
The ceasefire in Lebanon had been demanded by Tehran, calling its implementation a prerequisite for resuming talks with Washington<\/b> in view of ending the war.<\/p>\n
Washington, however, insists the two files are not linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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