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WASHINGTON — Israel and Lebanon signed a trilateral agreement with the United States on Friday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as a “first step” toward peace and security after months of conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.“There's a lot of work ahead,” Rubio said at the signing ceremony in Washington. “Today we've taken the first step, and what will be a difficult journey, without a doubt, but an important and an essential and a necessary one.”The State Department did not immediately release the text of the framework, and Rubio offered no specifics in his prepared remarks.The four-day-long talks between the two neighbors centered on creating "pilot zones" in southern Lebanon where Israeli troops would gradually hand over the territory they occupied during the ongoing war to the Lebanese military.This is a developing story and will be updated.
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