{"id":544091,"date":"2026-07-16T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:26:14","slug":"israel-lebanon-talks-conclude-in-rome-pilot-zones-agreement-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544091\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Lebanon talks conclude in Rome, pilot zones agreement reached"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lebanon and Israel concluded US-brokered talks in Rome<\/a> on Wednesday, which further reinforced that both countries were in agreement on the need to dismantle and disarm Hezbollah, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A US official said they had made progress on implementing a plan that could see Israeli forces begin to withdraw from some parts of southern Lebanon within days.<\/p>\n

Under a US-brokered June 26 framework deal, Lebanon<\/a> and Israel agreed to implement a “pilot zone” project that would see the disarmament of Hezbollah<\/a>, the deployment of Lebanese troops and progressive withdrawal of the IDF.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two pilot zones<\/a> were agreed upon to test the successful expression of Lebanese sovereignty through the implementation of agreed-upon conditions by the Lebanese armed forces and verification by the US, the official told the Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Discussions are continuing to find a way to both facilitate the removal of contraband weapons and respect Lebanese law regarding private property.<\/p>\n

UNIFIL and UNTSO were not discussed, nor will they be part of any verification model, according to the official.<\/p>\n

In written comments distributed to journalists, a US official described the two days of talks as “productive and positive.”<\/p>\n

“We agreed on the structure and guidelines for the pilot zone process, to be finalized and implemented in the coming days,” the official said.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon and Israel concluded US-brokered talks in Rome on Wednesday, which further reinforced that both countries were in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,1031,85,46,81925,18264,88,43],"class_list":["post-544091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-and-lebanon","tag-israel-us","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544091","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=544091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}