Israel\u2019s refusal to withdraw from occupied Lebanese territory and ongoing tensions are delaying the scheduling of the next round of negotiations with Lebanon, Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported.<\/p>\n
According to the broadcaster on Monday, Israel claims that the Lebanese army is working “in coordination with Hezbollah.”<\/p>\n
Lebanon, meanwhile, is refusing to hold talks in the near future in protest against Israel’s failure to expand the areas from which its forces would withdraw in southern Lebanon, KAN said.<\/p>\n
“Setting a date for the next round of talks between Israel and Lebanon is being delayed because of the existing tensions between the two countries,” the broadcaster added.<\/p>\n
The seventh round of Lebanese-Israeli negotiations concluded on Thursday in Rome under US sponsorship. The talks addressed issues related to implementing a framework agreement reached on June 26.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun stated during a Cabinet meeting that his country had made “positive progress” in the Rome negotiations regarding the border and prisoner exchange files.<\/p>\n
The framework agreement stipulates a gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory, beginning with a pilot phase in certain areas, in exchange for the deployment of Lebanon’s army and the disarmament of armed groups, a reference to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s refusal to withdraw from occupied Lebanese territory and ongoing tensions are delaying the scheduling of the next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-580862","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\/580862","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=580862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}