According to Lebanon’s army, its soldiers have started moving to a “pilot zone” in the country’s south after Israeli forces withdrew as part of a deal mediated by the United States last month. Units entered the village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh in the Nabatieh district on Tuesday morning, according to a statement from the army command. The pilot zone proposal, which calls for the disarmament of the Iran-backed organization and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from a tiny portion of the region they have seized during their fight with Hezbollah, was confirmed by Israel’s military on Monday night.
It takes place before US President Donald Trump and his Lebanese counterpart, Joseph Aoun, meet in Washington. Aoun is anticipated to exert pressure on Trump to force Israel to leave the remainder of southern Lebanon and to help the Lebanese army seize complete control of regions controlled by Hezbollah. In accordance with the Trilateral Framework agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the US, the US State Department declared on Monday afternoon that “pilot zone operations” had started in Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh and two additional Lebanese villages, Froun and Srifa.
It claimed that talks between Israeli and Lebanese delegates in Rome last week directly led to the “milestone.” The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will “adjust its force posture in one of the pilot areas” to enable the Lebanese army to fulfill its mission while simultaneously “safeguarding the security of IDF soldiers and preserving its right to self-defence and to remove threats,” an Israeli military official confirmed later on Monday.
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