{"id":577990,"date":"2026-08-07T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577990\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:40:09","slug":"lebanon-points-to-positive-progress-on-borders-prisoners-in-israel-talks-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577990\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon points to \u2018positive progress\u2019 on borders, prisoners in Israel talks | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Israeli attacks reported in southern Lebanon as Beirut offers optimism after the seventh round of discussions.<\/p>\n

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Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun has projected a positive outlook following the latest round of Lebanon-Israel meetings in Rome<\/a> this week, even as the Israeli military keeps up its barrage of strikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During a cabinet session on Friday, Aoun said the talks covered the ceasefire, the demolition and bulldozing of homes, borders, prisoner exchanges and \u201cpilot zones\u201d, according to a statement from the Lebanese presidency.<\/p>\n

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He pointed to \u201cpositive progress\u201d on borders and prisoners and said he was hopeful \u201cthat practical steps will soon emerge\u201d, the statement added.<\/p>\n

The president also highlighted his meetings last month<\/a> with United States President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, telling the cabinet that the US administration understood Lebanon\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n

Aoun\u2019s comments echoed those of the US State Department, which characterised<\/a> the discussions as \u201cfruitful\u201d and said Lebanon and Israel are \u201cmuch closer to reaching an agreement on advancing and expanding the pilot zones process\u201d.<\/p>\n

But on the ground in Lebanon, displaced families have expressed mounting frustration<\/a> with Israel\u2019s refusal to abide by the June 26 \u201cframework agreement<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency (NNA) reported a series of new Israeli attacks, including one that wounded a Lebanese soldier.<\/p>\n

Early morning artillery shelling targeted the town of Meiss el-Jabal, which coincided with machinegun fire towards the town, while Israeli drones flew over Beirut and its suburbs.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s army later targeted a team of water utility workers in Bint Jbeil as they repaired the local water network, NNA reported, and caused an explosion near a mosque in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese army said a soldier was \u201cslightly injured\u201d following an Israeli attack on an army bulldozer in al-Mansouri, Tyre, as it worked to open roads and remove rubble, according to NNA.<\/p>\n

Tyre came under attack<\/a> on Wednesday, when Israeli air raids and shelling wounded at least eight people.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military also issued a forced displacement order for the town of al-Mansouri, despite residents lamenting that it was outside Israel\u2019s occupation zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Israeli attacks reported in southern Lebanon as Beirut offers optimism after the seventh round of discussions. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,48084,88,47,43],"class_list":["post-577990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577990","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=577990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}