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🇱🇧 Lebanese President Visits Nabatieh As Talks With Israel Postponed Joseph Aoun, President of Lebanon, visited the city on Saturday surrounded by soldiers providing a military escort. The southern Lebanese city has seen escalating attacks, despite a ceasefire, by Israeli forces with nearly 30 people killed, including women and children, since early September. Including an attack Monday morning where Israel struck a residential home killing 12 people from a single family, including 6 children. The visit comes among reports by Axios’ Barak Ravid that main talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled to take place in Rome next week, have been postponed to October, according to a U.S. official. In the meantime, ambassadors from Lebanon and Israel will meet in DC “to discuss recent developments and the continued implementation of the framework agreement” between both parties. Read more about Monday’s strike and the escalating situation in Lebanon at the report by Katrine Dige Houmøller linked below.
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VIDEO | Flanked by Lebanese soldiers, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who has continued to push for talks with Israel despite Israeli attacks, entered the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh. According to Israeli media operative Barak Ravid for Axios, next week's scheduled Rome negotiations between Israel and Lebanon have been postponed. Instead, Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors will meet at the US State Department in Washington to discuss recent developments and continue implementing their framework agreement. Official talks will resume in Rome in October, a senior US official added.