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Updated · The Wall Street Journal · May 11Israel and Lebanon hold new US-facilitated peace talks
14 articles · Updated · The Wall Street Journal · May 11
- The two-day negotiations are scheduled for May 14-15, the State Department said, days before the current ceasefire expires on May 17.
- The talks aim to secure a lasting peace and security agreement after continued violence undermined the mid-April truce between Israel and Hezbollah.
- Lebanon's Health Ministry said 17 people were killed in recent fighting in the south, marking one of the deadliest periods since the ceasefire began.
Can peace talks succeed when Lebanon's government doesn't control the main combatant, Hezbollah? Could a new dispute over offshore gas fields derail the U.S.-brokered peace talks?