After their visit to Beirut, U.S. envoys Tom Barrack and Morgan Ortagus met in Paris with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and the talks were not positive, seeing as Dermer categorically rejected adding Lebanon’s eight remarks to the U.S. paper, informed sources said.

The U.S. delegation then suggested that Israel make a goodwill gesture through releasing a number of Lebanese captives and withdrawing from one of the occupied points, but Dermer strongly rejected that and stressed that Israel wants “serious actions” from Lebanon and that it will carry on with its plans for the northern front, the sources told ad-Diyar newspaper in remarks published Friday.