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Round 4 of the US-brokered talks opens in Washington, Hezbollah’s weapons and an Israeli pullback on the agenda. The Security Council met Monday at France’s request after Beaufort Castle fell, and split along familiar lines. 3,412 dead since Mar 2; the strikes on the south have not stopped.
LEBANON · ISRAEL TRACK
A fourth round of US-brokered talks opens in Washington on Jun 2, the first since negotiators added a military track at the Pentagon on May 29; on the table are an Israeli withdrawal, the Lebanese army’s takeover of the south, funding for that army, and the disarmament of Hezbollah. Israel now says it will not strike Beirut and wants the truce widened to the rest of the country, even as its aircraft kept hitting the south overnight. Israeli forces hold Beaufort Castle and ground past the Litani — the deepest reach into Lebanon since 2000 — and the 45-day truce runs to Jun 29 on paper.
AS OF: Tue Jun 2
Israeli and Lebanese delegations reconvene in Washington on Jun 2 for a fourth round of US-brokered talks, the first to follow the May 29 military session at the Pentagon, with an Israeli withdrawal, a Lebanese army takeover of the south, funding for that army, and the disarmament of Hezbollah all on a single agenda. The round opens a day after the Security Council met at France’s request — Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot calling the campaign an “ever-deeper occupation,” Israel’s envoy Danny Danon answering that the real failure is the unenforced Resolution 1701 — and after Israel signaled it would spare Beirut and seek to widen the truce, even as strikes on the south continued overnight. Lebanon’s Health Ministry counts 3,412 dead since Mar 2, at least 108 of them medics; Israel reports 24 soldiers and four civilians killed, with tens of thousands displaced from its north.
JUN 29
45-DAY TRUCE EXPIRES
JUN 2–3
ROUND 4 IN WASHINGTON
3,412
KILLED SINCE MAR 2
108
MEDICS KILLED SINCE MAR 2
- Round 4 opens in Washington. Israeli and Lebanese delegations reconvene Jun 2–3, the first round since the May 29 Pentagon military session, over an Israeli withdrawal, the Lebanese army’s move into the south, funding for that army, and Hezbollah’s arms.
- Israel signals it will spare Beirut. A day after Trump said the shooting would stop and Netanyahu warned it would not, Israeli officials said the capital would not be struck and floated widening the truce to the rest of Lebanon. Aircraft kept hitting the south overnight.
- Security Council meets, then splits. The Council convened late Monday at France’s request after Beaufort Castle fell. Barrot called the campaign an “ever-deeper occupation”; Israel’s Danny Danon answered that the real failure is the unenforced Resolution 1701.
- Beaufort Castle held. Israeli forces hold the hilltop fort and ground past the Litani — the deepest reach into Lebanon since the 2000 withdrawal — with bridges below the river destroyed to slow Hezbollah movement.
- Two demands, one gap. Lebanon wants the troops out and its army back on the border; Israel wants Hezbollah disarmed first. Beirut’s refusal at the Pentagon to disarm Hezbollah at once is the gap Round 4 inherits — and, by one Lebanese account, what drew the latest strikes.
- The toll, both sides. Lebanon’s Health Ministry counts 3,412 dead and 10,269 wounded since Mar 2, at least 108 of them medics; Israel reports 24 soldiers and four civilians killed. More than 1.2 million Lebanese have left their homes.
- Iran ties its own track to Lebanon. Tehran halted talks with Washington over the campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza and called a Lebanon ceasefire “an inalienable part” of any deal; the IRGC renewed threats to Gulf shipping. In Beirut the linkage reads as leverage.
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