US Central Command chief Admiral Brad Cooper, currently in Lebanon, met with Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Rudolf Haykal on Monday to discuss ways to implement the agreement signed between Israel and Lebanon, according to the Abu Ali Express channel.
Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), met Monday in Beirut with Lebanese Armed Forces Chief General Rudolf Haykal to discuss the practical steps needed to implement the ceasefire and security agreement signed between Israel and Lebanon. The meeting was reported by the Abu Ali Express channel, which cited Lebanese sources.
The meeting comes amid a concerted US diplomatic push to solidify the ceasefire arrangement that ended months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. As The Zioneer has reported, CENTCOM activated a live monitoring mechanism for the ceasefire on June 22, and Cooper's visit — which follows a June 24 report of his planned trip — underscores the Pentagon's direct role in supervising implementation. The two military commanders discussed the Lebanese army's deployment and its responsibility to prevent Hezbollah from re-establishing a presence south of the Litani River, a core obligation under the agreement.
The encounter also builds on earlier US mediation efforts: Israel and Lebanon have been discussing a US pilot plan for the handover of territory in southern Lebanon, and new US-Israeli understandings on the Lebanon front were reached in late June. The Lebanese army chief had previously visited Pakistan to discuss the military's capacity to deploy in the south.
The meeting signals that, on the ground, implementation remains a work in progress, with the US acting as enforcer and facilitator.
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Source and signal
- Internal intake