{"id":543021,"date":"2026-07-15T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:25:08","slug":"lebanon-israel-conclude-two-days-of-positive-talks-us-official%ef%bd%9carab-news-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon, Israel conclude two days of \u2018positive\u2019 talks: US official\uff5cArab News Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            \u201cTalks concluded after two days of productive and positive discussions,\u201d the official said<\/p>\n<p>                                            Participants \u201cagreed on the structure and guidelines for the pilot zone process, to be finalized and implemented in the coming days\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel completed a new round of Washington-mediated negotiations in Rome on Wednesday, agreeing to implement the \u201cpilot zones\u201d in southern Lebanon agreed under a recent framework deal, a US official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalks concluded after two days of productive and positive discussions,\u201d the official said, adding that the participants \u201cagreed on the structure and guidelines for the pilot zone process, to be finalized and implemented in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US-brokered negotiations took place in the Italian capital over the framework agreement sealed last month after five rounds of talks in Washington, with Lebanese negotiators hoping for progress on an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The deal seeks an end to the war in Lebanon, disarmament of Hezbollah, the deployment of Lebanese troops in the south and for Israeli forces to steadily withdraw from the country, starting with two \u201cpilot zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon and Israel, who have no formal relations, started negotiations after Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah drew its country to the broader Middle East war by attacking Israel in March.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTalks concluded after two days of productive and positive discussions,\u201d the official said Participants \u201cagreed on the structure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-543021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543021","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=543021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}