{"id":186258,"date":"2026-06-02T18:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=186258"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:52:37","slug":"new-round-of-lebanon-israel-talks-kicks-off-as-fighting-between-israel-and-hezbollah-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/new-round-of-lebanon-israel-talks-kicks-off-as-fighting-between-israel-and-hezbollah-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"New round of Lebanon-Israel talks kicks off as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-186259\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/000-B4QR64Z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/000-B4QR64Z.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/000-B4QR64Z-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/000-B4QR64Z-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/000-B4QR64Z-696x392.jpg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/000-B4QR64Z-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon began a new round of direct talks in Washington on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said he had received commitments from both sides to de-escalate.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth meeting between representatives of the two countries, which do not have diplomatic relations, is taking place at the State Department and is scheduled to last two days.<\/p>\n<p>Participants include Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese envoy Nada Hamadeh Moawad, as well as Daniel Holler, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>None of the officials made any statements.<\/p>\n<p>The talks come as Hezbollah and Israel continue to exchange fire, despite Trump announcing an agreement Monday to halt attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Israel on Tuesday said it would continue targeting Hezbollah\u2019s bastions in Beirut\u2019s suburbs if the Iran-backed group continues to attack northern Israeli towns.<\/p>\n<p>Recent days have seen a dramatic escalation in fighting and bombardment as Israeli troops stage their deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said Tuesday that Israeli strikes a day earlier near a hospital in the southern city of Tyre killed four people and wounded 127 others, including 39 staff from the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon began a new round of direct talks in Washington on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said he had received commitments from both sides to de-escalate. The fourth meeting between representatives of the two countries, which do not have diplomatic relations, is taking place at the State Department and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133","service":"facebook","timestamp":1780415681,"status":"error"},{"account":"twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521","service":"twitter","timestamp":1780415681,"status":"error"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186260,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186258\/revisions\/186260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}