Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam charged that Israel is refusing to engage in negotiations over border disputes and accused it of not abiding by the terms of the ceasefire, in an interview with Bloomberg published Thursday.

The interview came days before the one-year anniversary of a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that ended more than a year of fighting with the Hezbollah terror group that instigated the conflict. The ceasefire has remained largely intact, although Israel regularly strikes what it says are Hezbollah efforts to rearm in southern Lebanon, as it says it is allowed to do per the agreement.

However, Salam said that Jerusalem has been unwilling to engage with Beirut to resolve a border disagreement that has seen IDF troops remain stationed at five key points on the Lebanese side of the border after the rest of the Israeli military withdrew after the fighting stopped.

“They ask for negotiations and when we show readiness, they don’t agree to the rendezvous,” Salam told Bloomberg, adding that he plans to raise the issue with the US, which has overseen the ceasefire.

He argued that the locations........

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