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President Donald Trump meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office on Tuesday. (Mark Schiefelbein\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The United States supports efforts to mediate a deal between Lebanon and Israel, President Donald Trump said in a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday, amid shaky efforts to restore Lebanese control over its southern territory following an Israeli military incursion.<\/p>

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\u201cLebanon has been a very mistreated country for a long period of time,\u201d Trump said, as he sat down for the first Oval Office meeting with a Lebanese president since 2009.<\/p>\n

The meeting came amid clashes in southern Lebanon involving Israeli forces, who this year stepped up what they called an assault on Hezbollah forces that has also killed and injured many civilians. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia and political movement, has its stronghold in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been involved in an effort to mediate between Israeli and Lebanese leaders to help bring about a pullback of both Hezbollah and Israeli forces. The diplomacy has been lower-profile than the White House engagement with Iranian leaders to discuss a deal that would restrict Tehran\u2019s nuclear program. But it has also faced challenges amid long-standing hostility between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Aoun has backed a framework deal with Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to it,\u201d said Aoun, sitting alongside Trump. He added that he believed that his country\u2019s speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, a Shiite Muslim who talks with international mediators on behalf of Hezbollah, also wants \u201cto see the end of this war. \u2026 He knows he did his best to rebuild the south, but unfortunately, the south\u2019s being destroyed in front of his eyes.\u201d<\/p>

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Trump said he would be willing to speak to Hezbollah or to anybody whom Aoun wanted him to \u2014 an offer that drew a laugh from the Lebanese leader.<\/p>\n

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Patrol vehicles with French troops sit parked Monday at a U.N. peacefkeeping base just north of the Israeli-demarcated \u201cyellow line\u201d in Naqoura, Lebanon. (Guy Peterson\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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Bishop Hugues de Woillemont walks with members of the U.N. force Monday in Naqoura. (Guy Peterson\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

On Monday, Israeli soldiers barred a Catholic aid group accompanied by a Washington Post reporter from entering parts of southern Lebanon that the Israeli military controls, despite the group\u2019s having required authorization from United Nations peacekeepers. The Israeli restrictions highlight the difficulties Lebanese have faced with moving freely in the south since the war between Israel and Hezbollah erupted in March, and underscore the difficulties in securing a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Trump has pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop bombing Beirut, sometimes in sharper terms in recent weeks than is typical for a U.S. leader to use against Israel.<\/p>

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Mohamad El Chamaa in Beirut contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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