{"id":509024,"date":"2026-06-24T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509024\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:53:07","slug":"second-day-of-israel-lebanon-talks-begin-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509024\/","title":{"rendered":"Second day of Israel-Lebanon talks begin in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second day of Israel-Lebanon negotiations has begun in Washington on Wednesday, a US State Department official told The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the official, the goal of the talks is to \u201ccontinue to advance a comprehensive peace and security between the two countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Present at the talks are an Israeli delegation, headed by Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, and a Lebanese delegation led by Lebanese Ambassador to the US, Nada Hamadeh Maawad, as well as former Lebanese ambassador to Washington, Simon Karam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The fifth round of discussions between the two nations kicked off on Tuesday and focused on the creation of \u201cpilot areas\u201d in southern Lebanon from which IDF troops would withdraw, allowing Lebanese military forces to take their place.<\/p>\n<p>Tobias Holcman and James Genn contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second day of Israel-Lebanon negotiations has begun in Washington on Wednesday, a US State Department official told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,85,46,88,43,1032,730],"class_list":["post-509024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509024","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=509024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}