BEIRUT: Lebanese and Israeli military delegations got security talks at the Pentagon underway on Friday, during which Beirut will demand Israel halt its attacks, which have intensified in recent days.
The talks come as the US and Hezbollah’s backer Iran were negotiating, with Tehran insists the fighting in Lebanon must be included in any agreement ending the Middle East war.
Also on Friday, the Israeli military issued evacuation warnings for seven southern Lebanese towns, two of them around 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Israel.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported several strikes across the south, and a wave of displacement as people fled the threatened towns.
The attacks come a day after an Israeli strike just south of Beirut, only the second since an April 17 truce sought, unsuccessfully, to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
