Despite direct talks, Lebanon-Israel tensions not easing with Hezbollah issue unresolved | | AW

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Israel made it clear it was "essential" that Lebanese militant group Hezbollah disarm regardless of any progress in terms of cooperation with Lebanon.
55% : Aoun said the UN delegation would head to southern Lebanon to check "the situation on the ground and see the real picture of what is happening there", while the army continues its work to implement the plan to dismantle Hezbollah's weapons.
54% : Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday said the next round of talks with Israel will begin on December 19, calling the reaction to initial negotiations this week "positive".
54% : Representatives of the ceasefire monitoring committee -- the United States, France, Lebanon, Israel and the UN force -- regularly convene in Naqura.
53% : On Friday Aoun will receive members of the UN Security Council and US envoy Morgan Ortagus, when he said he would urge them to help talks with Israel succeed.
53% : Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives have held surprise talks Wednesday under the auspices of the ceasefire monitoring mechanism at the UN peacekeeping force's headquarters in Lebanon's Naqura near the border with Israel.
44% : Despite the efforts at "positive" spin by both sides after the first direct talks in decades between Lebanon and Israel, uncertainties still cloud Prime Minister Binyamain Netanyahu's policies towards his country's northern neighbour as the Israeli army continues its strikes on Hezbollah targets despite the truce.
35% : A civil defence member stands on rubble at a damaged site after Israels military said it struck targets in two southern Lebanese towns on Thursday, in Jbaa southern Lebanon, December 4, 2025.
30% : Despite a November 2024 ceasefire that was supposed to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group, Israel has kept up strikes on Lebanon and has also maintained troops in five south Lebanon areas it deems strategic.

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