Lebanon's Aoun will not hold a call with Israel's Netanyahu in the near future: officials

Middle East Eye · April 16, 2026 Politics

Lebanon's Aoun will not hold a call with Israel's Netanyahu in the near future: officials Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun will not hold a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the near future, three Lebanese officials told Reuters on Thursday, after US President Donald Trump said leaders of both countries would speak. Two of the Lebanese officials said that the Lebanese embassy in Washington had informed the US administration before a call between Aoun and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday that Aoun would not speak to Netanyahu.

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