📌 Latest on US-mediated Lebanon-Israel negotiations:

7th round of talks in Rome focuses on Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, border demarcation and implementing the June security framework

🤝 Lebanese official tells Anadolu Israel has dropped its demand to disarm Hezbollah before border talks, while the US says it remains 'fully committed' to advancing the negotiations

⚠ Lebanon's state news agency reports 6 Israeli ceasefire violations during the opening day of talks, despite ongoing negotiations and the ceasefire framework

🗣 Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says those who dragged Lebanon into 'futile support wars' gave Israel a pretext to attack the country after Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem criticized the government's direct negotiations with Israel