A U.S. State Department official told Lebanon's MTV channel that talks between Israel and Lebanon continue and the U.S. is facilitating them; both parties will reconvene at 09:00 Washington time (16:00 Jerusalem) to press toward an agreement. The update follows the third U.S.-mediated negotiating session, which ran into the night.
A State Department official confirmed to Lebanese broadcaster MTV on Friday morning that U.S.-mediated negotiations between Israel and Lebanon remain ongoing and will reconvene at 09:00 Eastern Time (16:00 Jerusalem). The official said the two sides would resume their meetings 'to continue working toward an agreement.'
The comment follows an 11-hour session that stretched into the early hours of Friday, as previously reported by The Zioneer. Multiple Israeli and Lebanese media outlets had assessed on Thursday that a joint declaration of intent was likely to be signed 'today or tomorrow.' The new statement keeps that window open but provides no timeline for a signing. As The Zioneer reported at 07:12 Jerusalem, the talks have now entered a fourth day, with a pilot plan for an Israeli withdrawal under American supervision reportedly built into the framework.
No Israeli or Lebanese delegation members have formally confirmed the morning's resumption time. The State Department official's on-the-record remark is the first explicit scheduling confirmation for the day's session, following late-night discussions that wrapped without an announcement.
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