President Donald Trump touted “a great meeting” between officials from Israel and Lebanon at the White House Thursday, telling reporters he expects to welcome the nations’ two leaders to the White House soon, APA reports citing CNN.
“We had a great meeting, with the very high officials of Lebanon and the very high officials of Israel, and I think that the president of Lebanon and the prime minister of Israel, over the next couple of weeks, will be coming here,” he said. “They’ve agreed to an additional three weeks of, I guess, no firing — ceasefire — no more firing. Let’s see. We hope that happens. It’s not going to happen between them, but we still have Hezbollah to think about.”
In a follow up exchange, Trump said the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, which he announced via Truth Social moments before the event, is expected to last three weeks, “and the leaders will most likely be coming here during that time.”
“And I think when they do, that’s a very historic thing,” he added. “They have never met, they’re next to each other and they’ve never met.”
Pressed by reporters in the Oval Office, the president said believes there’s a “great chance” for peace between Israel and Lebanon this year.
“They’re friends about the same things, and they’re enemies on the same things,” he said. “And it has to do with, I guess you could say a couple of countries, but certainly it’s, you look at Hezbollah, that’s where everybody seems to be united — against them.”
