Lebanon ready to negotiate to reach an agreement that would end Israeli strikes, President says

Lebanon is acceptable to negociate to scope an statement that would extremity Israeli strikes connected the state and pb to Israeli withdrawal from 5 borderline hills it has occupied since the Israel-Hezbollah warfare ended past year, President Joseph Aoun said Friday (November 21, 2025).

In a televised code marking Independence Day, Mr. Aoun added that Lebanese troops are acceptable to deploy successful each points from wherever Israeli troops withdraw.

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It was not instantly wide if Israel would judge the connection arsenic it comes astatine a clip erstwhile it has intensified its strikes successful Lebanon. On Tuesday (November 18, 2025), an airstrike killed 13 people successful the Palestinian exile campy of Ein el-Hilweh adjacent the confederate metropolis of Sidon successful the deadliest onslaught since a ceasefire went into effect a twelvemonth ago.

Mr. Aoun did not accidental whether the negotiations with Israel would beryllium nonstop adding that they could beryllium sponsored by the U.S., the United Nations oregon the planetary community.

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Mr. Aoun said the ceasefire monitoring committee that is made up of the U.S., France, Israel, Lebanon and the U.N. peacekeeping unit known arsenic UNIFIL, tin past cheque that lone forces of the Lebanese authorities are deployed on the border.

Israel said precocious that Hezbollah is trying to rebuild its capabilities aft it was weakened by the Israel-Hezbollah war.

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The latest Israel-Hezbollah warfare began October 8, 2023, a time aft Hamas attacked confederate Israel, aft Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel successful solidarity with Hamas. Israel launched a wide bombardment of Lebanon for 2 months past twelvemonth that severely weakened Hezbollah, followed by a crushed invasion.

That war, the astir caller of respective conflicts involving Hezbollah implicit the past 4 decades, killed much than 4,000 radical successful Lebanon, including hundreds of civilians, and caused an estimated $11 cardinal worthy of destruction, according to the World Bank. In Israel, 127 radical died, including 80 soldiers.