{"id":794455,"date":"2026-05-13T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794455\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:50:11","slug":"third-round-of-israel-lebanon-talks-to-take-place-with-military-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794455\/","title":{"rendered":"Third round of Israel-Lebanon talks to take place with military officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third round of talks between Israel and Lebanon<\/a> will open in Washington on Thursday, and for the first time, military representatives will also participate. The talks, which will take place at the State Department, come just before the expiration of the three-week ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon announced by US President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese delegation will be led by Lebanon\u2019s former ambassador to the United States, Simon Karam; the current Lebanese ambassador to the US, Nada Hamadeh Mouawad; and Lebanon\u2019s military attach\u00e9 in Washington.<\/p>\n

The Israeli delegation will be led by Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, and will also include a representative from the National Security Council, IDF Head of Strategy Brig.-Gen. Amichai Levin, and the acting Israeli military attach\u00e9 in Washington.<\/p>\n

An Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post that the talks aim \u201cto discuss a framework for an agreement in greater depth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Representing the American side will be US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee<\/a>, Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s adviser Michael Needham, and US Ambassador to Lebanon, Michael Issa.<\/p>\n

\"USUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, Lebanon Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter walk to their meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC, U.S., April 14, 2026. (credit: REUTERS\/KEVIN LAMARQUE)<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is pressuring Lebanon to take a significant step in order to advance the negotiations. One of Washington\u2019s demands is that Beirut repeal the 1955 law prohibiting normalization with Israel. This demand was also raised with Lebanese officials by Leiter, and President Trump reportedly made the same request to senior Lebanese leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Americans are telling the Lebanese: it is time for Beirut to offer something in return as well. So far, Israel has maintained the ceasefire and has taken significant measures to improve the atmosphere, and without action from the Lebanese side, it will be difficult to continue the ceasefire,\u201d a source familiar with the details told the Post.<\/p>\n

Third and fourth discussion dates decided<\/strong><\/p>\n

The talks are scheduled to begin on Thursday at 4:00 p.m. Israel time, and at the end of the day, both sides will consult with their leaders before returning for another round of discussions on Friday.<\/p>\n

Before the meeting, Lebanon\u2019s Foreign Ministry submitted an official complaint to the UN Security Council on Wednesday against Iran, accusing Tehran of interfering in Lebanon\u2019s internal affairs and dragging the country into a devastating war it did not choose.<\/p>\n

In the complaint, the Lebanese foreign ministry denied Iranian claims that the transfer of Iranian diplomats to the Ramada Hotel in Beirut, which was later targeted by Israel, had been coordinated with Lebanon. The ministry also revealed that some of the Iranian officials killed in the strike had never been formally registered in Lebanon as diplomats. The complaint further details additional violations allegedly committed by the Iranian embassy in Beirut.<\/p>\n

Lebanon is demanding that the United Nations hold Iran to account for repeated violations of its international obligations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hezbollah officials called on Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Wednesday to hold a national referendum on direct negotiations with Israel and the possibility of signing a peace agreement. Hezbollah<\/a> official Nawaf al-Moussawi, who oversees resources and border affairs for the group, told Qatar\u2019s Al-Araby channel that \u201cPresident Joseph Aoun has been cornered, and therefore a referendum must be held to determine what the majority of the Lebanese people support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moussawi further claimed that President Trump is preparing an ambush for the Lebanese president during his upcoming visit to the United States.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt is shameful to shake hands with someone who is still killing your people [Netanyahu], whose hands are stained with blood \u2013 the man destroying homes in Lebanon \u2013 and to offer him peace while part of Lebanon\u2019s land remains occupied. You would become a partner of the enemy in its aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third round of talks between Israel and Lebanon will open in Washington on Thursday, and for the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10321,4783,66836,99,200843,302902,13192,324206,99127,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-794455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-hezbollah-lebanon","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-and-lebanon","13":"tag-israel-lebanon-war","14":"tag-lebanon","15":"tag-lebanon-rockets","16":"tag-lebanon-war","17":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116569718679012772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}