US touts 'historic breakthrough' on Israel-Lebanon maritime border
President Joe Biden called on Lebanon and Israel to now implement the agreement over their long-disputed maritime border.
The Biden administration hailed the US-mediated maritime deal reached between Lebanon and Israel on Tuesday as a “historic breakthrough” for two neighboring countries that remain technically at war.
The new agreement establishes a permanent maritime boundary between Israel and Lebanon, resolving a longstanding territorial dispute over a potentially gas-rich 330-square-mile stretch of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
