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Shafaq News- Washington\/ Beirut (Updated at 22:15)<\/p>\n
Lebanon and Israel reached a US-mediated framework agreement after talks in Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Friday, calling it \u201cthe beginning of the beginning\u201d though \u201ca long road\u201d remains ahead.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel would allow the Lebanese army to begin taking control of two \u201cpilot\u201d areas in southern Lebanon, one outside the security belt and another in an expanded area the Israeli military does not want to hold, but said Israeli forces would remain there until Hezbollah is \u201cdisarmed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The framework is a \u201cmajor achievement\u201d for Israel and a \u201cstrong blow\u201d to Iran, Netanyahu claimed.<\/p>\n
The far-right premier, wanted by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, also stated that Israel would not allow Lebanese residents or Hezbollah to return to the security belt.<\/p>\n
In response, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah rejected the framework, warning that direct negotiations with Israel undermine Lebanese sovereignty and risk internal divisions.<\/p>\n
Fadlallah, a member of Hezbollah\u2019s Loyalty to the Resistance bloc, stated that the Lebanese government lacked the constitutional and political authority to impose the Washington agreement, describing it as a \u201cgift\u201d to Israel that would have no effect on the ground. He warned that Hezbollah would oppose any attempt to implement the deal and \u201chold more firmly to [its] weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-26T17:57:59+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Washington\/ Beirut (Updated at 22:15) Lebanon and Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,12530,451,803,31737,312959,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-727794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-deal","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-lebanon-israel-deal-faces-hezbollah-rejection","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727794","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=727794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}