{"id":169,"date":"2025-12-05T01:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:33:01","slug":"lebanon-and-israel-have-their-first-direct-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon and Israel have their first direct talks."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An initial endeavour to lay the groundwork for a relationship and economic collaboration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shosh-bedrosian1764815175-0-640x480-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" style=\"width:811px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shosh-bedrosian1764815175-0-640x480-1.webp 640w, https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shosh-bedrosian1764815175-0-640x480-1-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shosh Bedrosian, Netanyahu&#8217;s spokesperson. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JERUSALEM:<\/strong> Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct meetings in decades on Wednesday, according to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of a year-old truce monitoring mechanism in the battle with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two sides met in the UN peacekeeping force&#8217;s headquarters in Naqura, Lebanon, near the Israeli border, as part of a framework to monitor the ceasefire, which began in November 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until until, Israel and Lebanon, which have no official diplomatic relations, insisted on maintaining military officers in the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s conference in Lebanon is an initial attempt to lay the groundwork for a friendship and economic cooperation between Israel and Lebanon. &#8220;This is a historic development,&#8221; Netanyahu spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initial endeavour to lay the groundwork for a relationship and economic collaboration JERUSALEM: Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct meetings in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[47,76,70,31,32,111,71],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-world","tag-attack","tag-breaking-news","tag-israel","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-update","tag-lebanon","tag-netanyahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}