The delegations of Lebanon and Israel, meeting this Thursday in Rome after interrupting their day of talks the previous day due to the latest attacks by the Israeli Army against the south of their neighboring country, have again concluded “earlier than expected” their meeting “due to events on the ground,” according to a U.S. State Department official confirmed to Europa Press.
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“Today’s round of talks ended at 3:30 p.m. Rome time”, the source told this agency, adding that the talks “ended earlier than expected due to events on the ground.”
However, it is expected that the Lebanese and Israeli delegations will resume their dialogue on Friday morning in the Italian capital.
Regarding Thursday’s meeting, interrupted for the second consecutive day, the parties in dialogue addressed “political and military issues” in a meeting that, according to the cited official, was “extremely productive.”
“The technical teams have made progress in determining key details regarding the implementation of the Trilateral Framework,” the diplomatic spokesperson highlighted in relation to the framework agreement reached by the three countries last June.
On Thursday morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the death in combat in southern Lebanon of two soldiers from a paratrooper brigade, as a result of an action in which four other soldiers were “seriously injured” and which was made public after the resumption of Israeli attacks against Lebanon.
For its part, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that at least eight people were injured due to attacks “by the Israeli enemy” in the town of Burj al Shamali, in the Tyre district.
Similarly, on Wednesday, one person died and twelve others were injured due to an attack carried out by the Israeli Army against Tebnin, a municipality in the Bint Jbeil district in southern Lebanon. This led to the suspension of that day’s dialogue in Rome between the two neighboring countries, while Israel justified its aggression, despite the ceasefire in effect and amid the seventh round of talks, alleging that there is “terrorist infrastructure” attributed by it to the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah.
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