Israeli Security Official Meets with Lebanese and U.S. Representatives.
According to Al Jazeera, Israel’s Channel 15 did not disclose the level and nature of the Lebanese and American representatives in announcing the news.
The American news site Axios also reported, citing sources it called informed, that Israel has increased its level of participation in direct talks with Lebanon.
According to the report, Yossi Draznin, Israel’s deputy homeland security adviser, will attend the meeting in Ras al-Naqoura on Friday.
Sources informed Axios that the meeting is officially dedicated to examining economic cooperation in the border areas, but its unofficial goal has been to prevent a resumption of war.
The last round of the ceasefire monitoring committee meeting was held on December 4 of this year with the presence of US envoy Morgan Ortagus, the Lebanese military technical delegation headed by Simon Karam, representatives of France and the United States, and the Israeli delegation, with the participation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces (UNIFIL) in the Ras al-Naqoura area on the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun appointed Karam to head the country’s delegation in the meetings of the Military Technical Committee (Ceasefire Monitoring Committee), formed based on the declaration of cessation of hostilities (ceasefire agreement).
The Lebanese presidential office announced in a statement that Karam’s appointment came after the United States, as the head of the Military Technical Committee (Ceasefire Monitoring Committee), informed the Lebanese government that Israel had agreed to include a civilian member in the Lebanese delegation to this committee.
The Zionist regime began its aggression against Lebanon on October 1, 2024, and after two months, it finally signed a ceasefire on Wednesday, December 7, with American mediation, but it has consistently violated it.
According to the ceasefire agreement, the Zionist regime’s troops were to withdraw from southern Lebanon within 60 days, but the regime, contrary to international law, kept its troops in five strategic positions in the region and did not leave.