{"id":442182,"date":"2026-05-14T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/442182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:47:08","slug":"third-round-of-israel-lebanon-peace-talks-productive-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/442182\/","title":{"rendered":"Third round of Israel-Lebanon peace talks ‘productive, positive’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first day of a third round of negotiations<\/a> between Israel and Lebanon has concluded after eight hours of talks hosted at the US State Department in Washington on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Delegations from both countries<\/a> will meet again on Friday for further discussion.<\/p>\n

The talks were \u201cproductive and positive,\u201d according to a State Department official. \u201cWe look forward to continuing this tomorrow and hope to have more to share then,” the official added.<\/p>\n

Before Thursday\u2019s negotiations, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post that the talks aim \u201cto discuss a framework for an agreement in greater depth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This round of negotiations was the first that was attended by military<\/a> representatives and came shortly before the expiration of a three-week extension<\/a> to the ongoing ceasefire deal announced by US President Donald Trump on April 23.<\/p>\n

The US mediation of the talks was led by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s adviser Michael Needham, and US Ambassador to Lebanon Michael Issa.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s delegation was led by the Israeli ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, who was accompanied by the IDF Head of Strategy Brig.-Gen. Amichai Levin, a representative from the National Security Council, and the acting Israeli military attach\u00e9 in Washington.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese delegation consisted of Lebanon\u2019s former ambassador to the US, Simon Karam, current Lebanese ambassador Nada Hamadeh Mouawad, and Lebanon\u2019s military attach\u00e9 in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first day of a third round of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon has concluded after eight hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56,85,46,88,1034,43,13931,1032],"class_list":["post-442182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ceasefire","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-news","tag-state-department","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}