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BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel plan to hold their next round of US-brokered talks in Italy on Aug 4, a Lebanese official said on Wednesday, as the two countries began implementing a plan for Israeli withdrawals and Lebanese army deployment in the south.
The two countries have held more than three months of face-to-face talks, billed as a way to put a permanent end to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, triggered by the wider US-Iran conflict.
The ambassador-level direct meetings are unusual for countries that remain formally at war and have had no normal diplomatic relations through decades of invasion, military occupation and cross-border conflict.
Five meetings hosted by the United States produced a framework deal late last month which foresees the disarmament of Hezbollah, the progressive withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon and the deployment of Lebanese troops.
