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Trump says Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended by three weeks
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Trump says Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended by three weeks
President Trump said the second meeting between the Israeli and Lebanese envoys went "very well."
Elizabeth Hagedorn
Apr 23, 2026
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Israel Ambassador to US Yechiel Leiter, US Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Lebanon Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh and US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting at the White House in Washington on April 23, 2026. — Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced a three-week extension of a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon after a second round of ambassador-level talks hosted at the White House on Thursday.
“The Meeting went very well!,” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing the extension. “The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah.”
Trump added that he looked forward to hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun “in the near future.” A meeting has not yet been scheduled, though Trump said he expected the leaders to travel to Washington during the three-week ceasefire.
The talks between Lebanese Ambassador to the United States Nada Hamadeh and her Israeli counterpart, Yechiel Leiter, held at the State Department last week marked the first of their kind in decades between the two countries, which lack formal diplomatic relations and remain in an official state of war.
Thursday's meeting was moved to the White House, in a sign........
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