Lebanon president hits back at Hezbollah over Israel talks criticism

Lebanon’s president said Monday direct negotiations with Israel aimed to end the Israel-Hezbollah war, adding that those who dragged Lebanon to war were the ones committing “treason” — a jab at Hezbollah, whose leader called the talks a “sin”. Lebanon and Israel’s US ambassadors met twice in Washington over the past weeks, the first meetings of their kind in decades, for discussions that were categorically rejected by Hezbollah.