Lebanon will press for a halt to Israeli strikes at Tampa talks

According to Reuters, the presidency made the announcement on X on 17 October. Under the US-brokered framework agreement reached in June, Beirut undertook to disarm Hezbollah, and Israel in return to withdraw its troops in stages. The new war between Israel and Hezbollah began on 2 March as part of the wider regional conflict. Hezbollah says it will not give up its weapons as long as Israeli troops stay on Lebanese soil, while Israel continues to strike the south. A Talay record of 15 October noted that Hezbollah had admitted the explosives seized on the road to Beirut were its own.

According to TRT World, the Turkish state broadcaster, President Joseph Aoun said Israel was demolishing homes in southern villages and preventing farmers from reaching their fields, in breach of the framework agreement. Aoun said the continuing occupation was stopping the army from deploying to the line set out in UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Beirut wants the international peacekeeping force's withdrawal, planned for 2027, to be postponed. Israel's position on the Tampa talks did not appear in either of the two sources reviewed and could not be independently verified.