{"id":594471,"date":"2026-04-09T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:10:13","slug":"two-week-ceasefire-takes-effect-israel-launches-record-strikes-on-lebanon-iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-closed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594471\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-week ceasefire takes effect; Israel launches record strikes on Lebanon; Iran says Strait of Hormuz closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has its \u201cfinger on the trigger\u201d and remains ready to resume fighting with Iran \u201cat any moment\u201d, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement broadcast to Israeli television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear: We still have objectives to complete, and we will achieve them \u2013 either through agreement or through renewed fighting,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are prepared to return to combat at any moment required. Our finger remains on the trigger. This is not the end of the campaign, but a step along the way to achieving all our objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man looks on at destroyed cars as a building burns after an Israeli airstrike on April 8, 2026, in Beirut, Lebanon.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8ebcf361169a80151e62ca452dc8d4365120dc94.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>A man looks on at destroyed cars as a building burns after an Israeli airstrike on April 8, 2026, in Beirut, Lebanon.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Since the two-week conditional ceasefire was announced between the United States, Israel and Iran yesterday, a bombardment of Israeli strikes across Lebanon had killed more than 250 people and injured over 1000 more, Lebanese authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>International calls are mounting for Lebanon to be included in the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>with Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has its \u201cfinger on the trigger\u201d and remains ready to resume fighting with Iran \u201cat any moment\u201d,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-594471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}