'Change' MPs hold onto Line 29 as Lebanon reportedly gives it up

U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border will meet on Tuesday with a delegation of "Change" MPs at the U.S. Embassy in Awkar.

The MPs will convey to Amos Hochstein that Lebanon has the right to Line 29, MP Ibrahim Mneimneh said.

The lawmakers had protested Saturday in southern Lebanon against Israel moving a gas production vessel into an offshore field partly claimed by Beirut.

"Amending Decree 6433 is a national duty and we have legal proofs that Lebanon has the right to the Line 29," MP Melhem Khalaf had said last week on behalf of the reformist MPs.

With no official statements about the Lebanese response that was given today to Hochstein, media outlets said the response did not include any demand for Line 29.