Military analyst Elijah Magnier stated that US-mediated negotiations between Lebanon and Israel are unlikely to produce an agreement because Beirut lacks the “leverage” needed to secure an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Magnier told Al Jazeera that Israel is not interested in a deal unless Lebanon can disarm Hezbollah, which he described as an “impossible task to achieve” to verify. He also noted that the United States has not exerted sufficient pressure on Israel to make concessions.