The discussions are taking place at the US Embassy in the Italian capital through Wednesday.
The discussions are taking place at the US Embassy in the Italian capital through Wednesday, and follow the deal reached in Washington on June 26 during the fifth round of negotiations between representatives of Beirut and Jerusalem.and the deployment of Lebanese forces will be on the table, in accordance with the agreement, Reuters reported, citing officials familiar with the talks.
Cars leave the US Embassy, where Lebanon and Israel held the sixth round of their negotiations in Rome, Italy, on July 14, 2026. This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, near the Israel-Lebanon border, shows Israeli Merkava tanks driving along a road past destroyed buildings in southern Lebanon on June 17, 2026.also calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah, and Jerusalem has emphasized that an Israeli withdrawal will occur only once the threat from the Iranian terror proxy is removed.
Israeli forces are positioned within a security zone extending about ten kilometers into Lebanon along the entire Israeli border. The June 26 agreement identified two “pilot zones” north and south of the Litani River in which Israeli troops would be replaced by the Lebanese Armed Forces , while Hezbollah and other non-state armed groups would be disarmed.
A US official said last week that the US military’s Central Command was coordinating with Lebanon and Israel to launch the pilot zones. A US military delegation was in Lebanon over the weekend to discuss the plan in detail with the Lebanese army, sources told Reuters. A motorcade exits the US Embassy, where Lebanon and Israel held the sixth round of their negotiations in Rome on July 14, 2026.
, who is leading the talks for Jerusalem, said the Rome meetings will focus on creating conditions for the LAF to assume control in designated areas so that Israel can begin a phased withdrawal—but only if the Iranian terror proxy is dismantled.
“What the agreement with Lebanon does is completely remove Iran from the paradigm,” Leiter told “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan, adding that Jerusalem and Beirut “are on the same page” in seeking to push Hezbollah out for Israel’s security and Lebanon’s sovereignty.
He said Israel “can withdraw the moment that Hezbollah is dismantled,” but that the military will have to remain in the security zone if the terrorist group retains its arms, “because we’re not going to go back to a situation where our citizens are going to be threatened by an Iranian proxy firing missiles and building tunnels so they can attack, like Hamas did on Oct. 7,” referring to theAn Israeli military vehicle drives near a damaged building with a large Israeli flag in Lebanon, after Israel and Lebanon signed a framework agreement following US-mediated talks, as seen from northern Israel, on June 27, 2026.
Rescue workers search for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Qannarit village, southern Lebanon, on June 20, 2026. In response, Jerusalem launched a broad aerial campaign against Hezbollah targets and expanded military operations in Lebanon aimed at preventing cross-border attacks on Israeli communities.
Following the resumption of hostilities, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun vowed to do “the impossible” to stop cross-border hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and moved to outlaw the Iranian proxy. Israeli and Lebanese officials subsequently held five rounds of direct talks at the US State Department, resulting in the framework of understandings reached last month, which is conditioned on Hezbollah’s removal from southern Lebanon.
Cars leave the US Embassy, where Lebanon and Israel held the sixth round of their negotiations in Rome, Italy, on July 14, 2026. This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, near the Israel-Lebanon border, shows Israeli Merkava tanks driving along a road past destroyed buildings in southern Lebanon on June 17, 2026.
A motorcade exits the US Embassy, where Lebanon and Israel held the sixth round of their negotiations in Rome on July 14, 2026. An Israeli military vehicle drives near a damaged building with a large Israeli flag in Lebanon, after Israel and Lebanon signed a framework agreement following US-mediated talks, as seen from northern Israel, on June 27, 2026.
Rescue workers search for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Qannarit village, southern Lebanon, on June 20, 2026.
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