Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam walks among Lebanese army soldiers as he visits the southern village of Khiam near the border with Israel after the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area under a cease-fire deal with Hezbollah, , on Feb. 28, 2025. Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has said the normalization of diplomatic or economic relations with Israel remains distant, even as officials from the two countries met under a U.S.-backed mechanism designed to support the 2024 cease-fire agreement.
Speaking to reporters at his office on Dec. 3, Salam said he continues to adhere to the 2002 Arab peace plan, which links normalization with Israel to the creation of a Palestinian state, a condition firmly rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
