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2025-07-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Israel says Hezbollah must disarm before any Lebanon peace talks can advance
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[IsraelTimes] Official says Jerusalem pleased with Lebanese effort to disarm terror group, but ‘it will be very hard’; Beirut says it needs US guarantees Israel will fully withdraw from Lebanon
An Israeli official on Monday said that while talks about potential peace deals with both Leb
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and Syria are taking place, Beirut must "finish the issue" of disarming the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group before any normalization can move forward.
Earlier Monday, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said that Lebanon and Syria are both prospective candidates to join the Abraham Accords alongside Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, which normalized relations with Israel in 2020. A deal with Sudan
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was also announced at the time, but is yet to fully materialize.
Both Syria and Lebanon do not recognize Israel and have been technically at war with it since its creation in 1948.
But before peace with Lebanon can move ahead, the Israeli official said, "We need to finish the issue of disarming Hezbollah. It will be very hard. I don’t know if they will succeed."
Still, the official indicated that the Lebanese Armed Forces have demonstrated they are serious about disarming Hezbollah.
"They definitely have limitations that are both subjective and objective, but we are under the impression that they are trying," the official said. "At least most of the army is trying. We see more-or-less effective enforcement, but you see that we are striking almost every day."
"That should say a lot," they said, adding that contacts with the US-led deconfliction mechanism in Lebanon continue "all the time."
Speaking on the issue of Hezbollah’s disarmament, a Lebanese official said Monday that the government seeks guarantees that Israeli forces fully withdraw from Lebanese territory in response to the US’s demand that Beirut formally commit to disarming the terror group.
Lebanese leaders who took office in the aftermath of a war between Israel and Hezbollah last year have repeatedly vowed a state monopoly on bearing arms while demanding Israel comply with a November ceasefire that ended the fighting.
The Lebanese government official told AFP that in a recent visit, US envoy Tom Barrack had presented the demand for Beirut to officially commit to start disarming the Iran-backed group as stipulated in the November agreement, along with a full Israeli withdrawal.
President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and parliament speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
— who is a key Hezbollah ally — "are preparing a response," said the official on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the media.
With Barrack, Washington’s ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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and special envoy to Syria, expected back in Beirut by mid-July, the Lebanese leaders "will demand a halt to Israeli violations of the ceasefire, Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the release of prisoners [detained during the war] and the demarcation of the border," said the official.
According to the official, Barrack in his June 19 visit also asked that Lebanon work on securing its border with Syria and pursue economic reforms demanded by international creditors.
Aoun and Salam took power early this year as the balance of power shifted following the Israel-Hezbollah war that left the terror group — long an important player in Lebanese politics — severely weakened.
Lebanese authorities say they have been dismantling Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in the south, near the Israeli border.
Israel has continued to strike Lebanon despite the November ceasefire, claiming to hit Hezbollah targets and accusing Beirut of not doing enough to disarm the group.
According to the ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah is to pull its fighters back north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Israeli frontier.
Israel was to withdraw its troops from all of Lebanon, but has kept them deployed in five points it deems strategic.
Israel has remained at the five points ever since a ceasefire began on November 27, 2024, halting more than a year of hostilities initiated by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, including two months of full-blown war, during which Israel sent in ground troops across the northern border.
There was no comment from Beirut or Damascus, but the Lebanese government official told AFP normalization was not among the US envoy’s demands. 
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