Officials have released the full text of a U.S.-brokered framework agreement between the United States, Israel, and Lebanon that charts a path toward ending decades of conflict, calling for Hezbollah’s disarmament, phased Israeli troop withdrawals, and direct negotiations between the two neighboring countries aimed at achieving lasting peace.
The agreement was signed in Washington on June 26 and released later that same day by the U.S. State Department. It lays out a performance-based process under which the Lebanese Armed Forces would gradually restore state authority across Lebanon while disarming Hezbollah and other non-state armed groups.
As those steps are verified, Israeli forces would progressively redeploy from Lebanese territory, with the ultimate goal of ending the long-running conflict and establishing peaceful relations between the two countries….