{"id":243106,"date":"2026-08-10T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/243106\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:09:13","slug":"israel-lebanon-talks-said-to-include-request-to-relocate-jewish-graves-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/243106\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Lebanon talks said to include request to relocate Jewish graves to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel has requested the transfer of the remains of Jews buried in cemeteries in Lebanon to Israel as part of negotiations between Jerusalem and Beirut over a permanent agreement, according to a report on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Israeli side has pointed to a large number of Jewish graves in Beirut and Sidon which belong to people who have relatives currently living in Israel,\u00a0Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported.<\/p>\n

Jews resided in Lebanon for centuries. Lebanon was the only Arab country whose Jewish population grew after the establishment of Israel in 1948, reaching around 10,000 people. But the community quickly dwindled after that, numbering in the low hundreds in the 1970s, and has since shrunk to just a few dozen at most today.<\/p>\n

The issue was reportedly raised in the context of talks over Lebanese prisoners who were detained during the war in Lebanon and are being held in Israel, whose release Lebanon is demanding.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Israel proposed transferring the remains from Lebanon as part of what it called a \u201ccivilian prisoner exchange deal,\u201d which would include the transfer of the remains and the release of only some of the detained Lebanese, excluding Hezbollah operatives.<\/p>\n

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The Saudi Asharq News TV station reported last week<\/a> that the talks in Rome included a \u201clegal\u201d track which dealt with Lebanese prisoners held by Israel \u2014 separate from detained Hezbollah operatives.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tMembers of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan Force who were captured by the military in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on March 23, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)<\/p>\n

The channel called the atmosphere on the issue \u201cpositive.\u201d<\/p>\n

At negotiations in Washington in June, Israel and Lebanon agreed to a framework deal that involves the disarmament of Hezbollah, a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon\u2019s south and the deployment of the Lebanese army to the region, starting in test areas known as \u201cpilot zones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week the sides met for the seventh round of Washington-mediated talks since Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the Middle East war in March with rocket fire at Israel in support of its backer Iran.<\/p>\n

Two days after the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, Hezbollah fired at Israel in solidarity with Tehran. Israeli forces responded with aerial bombardments and a ground assault, seizing a strip of land extending about 10 km (6 miles) deep into southern Lebanon. More than a million Lebanese civilians were forced to flee their homes. Israel has been destroying significant terror infrastructure in the captured areas.<\/p>\n

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n


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