{"id":16738,"date":"2026-05-16T04:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/shaky-truce-between-israel-and-lebanon-extended-for-45-days-us-says-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:12:13","slug":"shaky-truce-between-israel-and-lebanon-extended-for-45-days-us-says-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/shaky-truce-between-israel-and-lebanon-extended-for-45-days-us-says-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaky truce between Israel and Lebanon extended for 45 days, US says – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statement following \u2018productive\u2019 talks in Washington comes as Israel launches strikes on southern city of Tyre
Israel and Lebanon<\/a> have agreed to a 45-day extension of their ceasefire after another round of talks in Washington, the US state department has said.
It came after two \u201cproductive\u201d days of talks, and more negotiations would be held from 2-3 June, the department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.
The shaky truce between Israel and the Hezbollah<\/a> militant group in Lebanon had been due to end on Sunday.
Pigott said on social media: \u201cWe hope these discussions will advance lasting peace between the two countries, full recognition of each other\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and establishing genuine security along their shared border.\u201d
Moments after the ceasefire renewal was announced, an Israeli strike hit a centre of the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Committee in the southern town of Hanuf, authorities said. Six people died, including three paramedics, and 22 were wounded, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry.
Israel also carried out strikes in the southern city of Tyre after issuing evacuation orders, and Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli barracks in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona with drones.
The Lebanese health ministry said strikes in the Tyre district also wounded at least 37 people, including six hospital personnel, nine women and four children.
Israel has been pounding Lebanon and invaded its south in response to fire from Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia movement that is not part of the ceasefire diplomacy.
The Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon after reporting hostile aircraft alerts and launches from across the border.
The US steadfastly backs Israel, with which it attacked Iran on 28 February, but has also gently voiced unease about Israeli troops\u2019 control of southern Lebanon.
Israel\u2019s ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter, who led his country\u2019s delegation, said after the talks that it would be critical to ensure Israel\u2019s security.
\u201cThere will be ups and downs, but the potential for success is great,\u201d Leiter wrote on X.
Iran\u2019s clerical state, Hezbollah\u2019s patron, has demanded a lasting ceasefire in Lebanon before any peace agreement with US president Donald Trump, who has been frustrated by Tehran\u2019s refusal to agree an accord on his terms.
On Friday night the Lebanese prime minister, Nawaf Salam, called for Arab and international support in Beirut\u2019s negotiations with Israel.
Speaking at an NGO dinner, Salam said he hoped to \u201cmobilise all Arab and international support to bolster our position in the negotiations\u201d with Israel.
In an implicit rebuke to Hezbollah, which joined the Middle East war in support of Iran, Salam said his country had had \u201cenough of these reckless adventures serving foreign projects or interests\u201d and that the Lebanese military should be the only armed body in the country.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse<\/em><\/p>\n

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Statement following \u2018productive\u2019 talks in Washington comes as Israel launches strikes on southern city of TyreIsrael and Lebanon have agreed to a 45-day extension of their ceasefire after another round of talks in Washington, the US state department has said.It came after two \u201cproductive\u201d days of talks, and more negotiations would be held from 2-3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}