Israel's Security Cabinet and the heads of the security establishment are meeting on Thursday evening with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the strengthening of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
"This is a significant discussion in light of Hezbollah's actions on the ground," an Israeli official said.
Senior officials in the Trump administration have also recently approached top Lebanese government officials and urged them to open dialogue with Israel, several sources told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, well-informed Lebanese sources told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar that Morgan Ortagus, the Trump administration’s special envoy to Lebanon, proposed improving the work of the five-member committee overseeing the ceasefire in Lebanon and expanding its authority to cover all of Lebanon’s borders, not just the southern border.
“In the end, only a broader dialogue between Israel and Lebanon can advance and improve the situation on the ground,” a Western diplomat told the Post.
Lebanese effort to disarm Hezbollah
Lebanon's army has blown up so many Hezbollah arms caches that it has run out of explosives, as it races to meet a year-end deadline to disarm the Shi'ite terror group in the south of the country under a ceasefire agreed with Israel, two sources told Reuters.
The explosives shortage, which has not been previously reported, has not stopped the army from quickening the pace of inspection missions to search for hidden weapons in the south, near Israel, the two said, one of whom is a security source and the other a Lebanese official.
Reuters and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.