{"id":307811,"date":"2026-02-24T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:20:09","slug":"israel-threatens-to-hit-lebanon-hard-if-hezbollah-joins-us-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307811\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel threatens to hit Lebanon &#8216;hard&#8217; if Hezbollah joins US-Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israel has sent an indirect message to Lebanon that it would strike Lebanon \u201chard\u201d, targeting civilian infrastructure, including the airport, if Hezbollah gets involved in any US-Iran war, two senior Lebanese officials said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Lebanon&#8217;s Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi also said on Tuesday his country feared Israeli strikes could hit its infrastructure if the situation with Iran escalates.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;There are signs that the Israelis could strike very hard in the event of an escalation, potentially including strategic infrastructure such as the airport,&#8221; Raggi told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;We are currently conducting diplomatic efforts to request that, even in the event of retaliation, Lebanese civilian infrastructure not be targeted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">He stressed that his country&#8217;s leadership had been very clear: &#8220;This war does not concern us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">On Monday, Washington ordered non-emergency personnel to leave its embassy in Beirut as anticipation rose of a possible conflict.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Iran and the US will hold a third round of nuclear talks on Thursday in Geneva, Oman&#8217;s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said on Sunday, amid growing concerns about the risk of military conflict between the adversaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has sent an indirect message to Lebanon that it would strike Lebanon \u201chard\u201d, targeting civilian infrastructure, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-307811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}