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‘Eventual IDF redeployment from Lebanon’: Full text of Israel-Lebanon deal security annex
The following is the full text of the security annex of the Trilateral Framework agreement between the United States, Israel and Lebanon, which was signed in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2026. The annex was not publicly released with the rest of the text, but the Asharq Bloomberg news site published a copy of it on Monday. The text’s veracity was confirmed to The Times of Israel by two officials familiar with the matter. The annex is accompanied by a map of the two pilot zones from which Israel has agreed to withdraw.
1. Pilot Zones Designation: The parties will immediately designate and launch the initial pilot zone in the South Litani Sector in an agreed upon military planning process using a four-step model:
- Clearance, taking legal measures against all non-state armed personnel engaging in unauthorized activity, and destroy or render inoperable associated infrastructure, including but not limited to weapons, weapons caches, tunnels, and command centers, by those non-state armed groups.
- Verification of clearance of all non-state armed groups and their military infrastructure by a mutually agreed-upon third-party entity.
- Presence of highly-qualified Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) that assume and maintain sole operational control, to prevent any resurgence of non-state armed activity.
- The Lebanese state leads reconstruction efforts, supported by international assistance and coordinated through the political track.
2. Implementation and Verification: The LAF will lead the implementation of this model with success measured by verifiable implementation of the disarmament and dismantlement process to be agreed upon within this negotiation framework.
Israel and Lebanon will establish the Military Coordination Group for Lebanon (MCG4L), tasked with the mission to operate 24/7, managing deconfliction, verification, and overall implementation. This cell will report to the respective political authorities of Israel and Lebanon via indirect military-to-military channels between Israel and Lebanon. Ongoing verification will occur simultaneously with clearing operations.
3. Security Commitments: The LAF commits to take necessary operational measures to ensure the disarmament of Hezbollah and all other non-state armed groups, and that they have no military role or capability within Lebanon.
4. Sequenced Redeployment: Pending successful completion of an agreed upon and verifiable disarmament and dismantlement process, Israel commits to a phased, conditions-based, progressive reduction and eventual redeployment of its forces from Lebanese territory, planned and sequenced through the MCG4L, to coincide with LAF deployment.
5. Desired Outcome: As part of the broader effort relating to the disarmament and dismantlement of all non-state armed groups as mutually agreed upon within this negotiation framework, restore full Lebanese state authority throughout Lebanon and ensure the long-term security of Israel.
6. Oversight and Dispute Resolution: The parties, with US facilitation, will conduct periodic reviews of the implementation and may amend this Annex by mutual agreement. Any disputes regarding its interpretation or execution will be resolved through trilateral discussions.
