Israel’s prime minister told top Biden administration officials on Thursday that the main points of any cease-fire agreement with Hezbollah must provide Israel the ability to counter security threats from Lebanon and return Israeli citizens to communities in the north of the country.

Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, senior White House officials focused on the Middle East, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, working to advance a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah that would halt escalating conflict in the region.

Netanyahu’s remarks came as rockets fired by Hezbollah reportedly killed at least seven people and wounded others. In Lebanon, at least six health workers were killed in Israeli strikes, Reuters reported.

The Biden administration is working to pursue a separate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah to calm fighting in the Middle East that is taking place on multiple fronts, with little movement on achieving a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The U.S. has also........

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