Lebanon will demand a ceasefire in the third round of talks with Israel in Washington today, the Times of Israel reports, citing an unnamed senior Lebanese official.
He stated that the Lebanese delegation would demand that Israel cease its attacks on southern Lebanon.
Despite a ceasefire agreement after the first round of talks, the Israeli military continued attacks on positions of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant movement.
Since the beginning of Washington and Jerusalem's war with Tehran, Hezbollah has stepped up rocket attacks from southern Lebanon on northern Israel.
The direct negotiations that will take place today and tomorrow represent the highest-level contact between the two countries in the last few decades.
Both Lebanon and Israel are expanding their delegations for this round of negotiations, after the parties were represented by their ambassadors to the US at the previous two meetings.
Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter announced that Jerusalem will present Beirut with a framework for the gradual disarmament of Hezbollah and the expansion of political ties during the third round of Israeli-Lebanese talks in Washington later today.
An unnamed State Department official said that the talks in Washington are being attended by the Lebanese President's special envoy Simon Karam and Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor Yossi Draznin, as well as senior representatives of the Israeli military.
The two countries have been in conflict for decades, and Israel has repeatedly occupied southern Lebanon in response to attacks by Palestinian militant groups there.
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