{"id":584881,"date":"2026-04-15T02:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584881\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:55:07","slug":"lebanese-israeli-diplomats-hold-rare-face-to-face-meeting-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584881\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese, Israeli diplomats hold rare face-to-face meeting in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LTN7WS6I3JHHTCXVGWMOZFOBDE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Senior diplomats from Lebanon and Israel met in Washington on Tuesday, a rare face-to-face encounter as their host, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sought to make peace between the two states.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HIU4YGXREJDZJJBZLYI7VTJYHE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The event, which lasted more than two hours, was described as a working group aimed at reaching a ceasefire amid ongoing cross-border hostilities. It was attended by Lebanon\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Nada Hamadeh Moawad, and her Israeli counterpart, Yechiel Leiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior diplomats from Lebanon and Israel met in Washington on Tuesday, a rare face-to-face encounter as their host,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-584881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}