UPDATE: Since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah restarted in March, more than four thousand people have been killed in Lebanon and over a million displaced. 🇱🇧 🇮🇱 In June, Israel and Lebanon’s government signed a framework in Washington. It ties any further Israeli withdrawal to Hezbollah handing over its weapons, and to the Lebanese army deploying in the south instead. The immediate problem: Hezbollah wasn’t part of the agreement, and rejected it outright. This isn’t new. In December, French, Saudi, and American officials met Lebanon’s army chief in Paris to discuss verifying Hezbollah’s disarmament. Eight months later, the fighting has only escalated. Politics on both sides make it harder. In Israel, a leading opposition figure has criticized restraint, saying the military should be allowed to win outright instead of negotiate. 🤔 In Lebanon, Hezbollah supporters have protested any disarmament talk. And this moment is rare: it’s the first direct negotiation between Israel and Lebanon’s government since a failed 1983 peace attempt.(Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial)