BEIRUT, 23 July. - (ANA) - Lebanon, Israel to hold next talks in Italy on August 4, Lebanese official says: Lebanon and Israel are scheduled to hold their next round of ​U.S.-brokered talks on August 4 in Italy, a Lebanese official told Reuters on Wednesday, as the two ‌countries begin implementing a plan for Israeli withdrawals and Lebanese army deployments in southern Lebanon.

 

Lebanon's culture minister Ghassan Salameh has described the raising of the Israeli flag on a Crusader-era castle in southern Lebanon as "hostile and provocative".   - (ANA) -

 

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