Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n
10 August 2026\u2022Update: 10 August 2026<\/p>\n
Hezbollah urged the Lebanese government Sunday to halt direct talks with Israel after the Israeli Foreign Ministry published a map depicting large parts of southern Lebanon as Israeli territory.<\/p>\n
The group said the map exposed Israeli ambitions over Lebanese land and resources, accusing Tel Aviv of seeking to impose new realities on the ground.<\/p>\n
The map, published Friday on the Israeli Foreign Ministry\u2019s Arabic-language account on the US social media platform X, showed large areas of southern Lebanon incorporated into Israel.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah argued that the map undermined the negotiating track, accusing Israel of using direct talks to buy time while seeking to consolidate its presence on Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n
The group called on the government to end direct negotiations and lodge an urgent complaint with the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
It also urged Lebanon\u2019s Higher Defense Council to convene an emergency meeting and called for a unified response to defend the country\u2019s sovereignty, territory and resources.<\/p>\n
Lebanese authorities had not publicly commented on the map as of Sunday evening. Beirut has repeatedly demanded a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
The statement comes after Lebanese and Israeli negotiators concluded a seventh round of US-mediated talks in Rome on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The talks focused on implementing a framework agreement reached on June 26.<\/p>\n
Despite the ongoing negotiations, Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon have continued since March 2. The attacks have killed 4,333 people and wounded 12,250 others, according to Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n
Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon, including areas held for decades as well as territory seized during the 2023-2024 war, where its forces advanced more than 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) into Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarek Chouiref 10 August 2026\u2022Update: 10 August 2026 Hezbollah urged the Lebanese government Sunday to halt direct talks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-579940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579940","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=579940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}