{"id":323419,"date":"2026-03-05T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323419\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:46:45","slug":"irgc-members-in-lebanon-will-be-arrested-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323419\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC members in Lebanon will be arrested, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> (IRGC) in Lebanon will be arrested, Reuters cited the Lebanese Information Minister Paul Morcos as saying on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Military operations by the IRGC will also be banned, and those arrested may be deported, according to Saudi-owned Al Arabiya, who added that the Lebanese cabinet had reportedly decided that Iranians would no longer have visa-free entry to Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam also slammed rumors of Lebanon commiting a “sin” by “aligning with and implementing Israel’s goals” during the cabinet meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Blame should be placed on “the one who dragged Lebanon into adventures that we were all better off without, without asking about their catastrophic repercussions on the country and our people, all in service of external interests that have nothing to do with Lebanon’s interest.”<\/p>\n

“Treasonous talk is not bravery, and the Lebanese have grown tired of it,” Salam said.<\/p>\n

IDF issues urgent evacuation notice for southern Beirut suburbs<\/p>\n

The IDF spokesperson in Arabic issued an immediate evacuation notice for all residents of Beirut\u2019<\/a>s southern suburbs in a Thursday afternoon post to X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n

Residents of the Bourj Brajneh, Al-Hadath, Haret Hreik, and Shiah neighborhoods were instructed to head towards Mount Lebanon to the north and avoid heading south.<\/p>\n

“You are prohibited from heading south. Any movement south may put your lives at risk,” the notice concluded.<\/p>\n

Following a separate evacuation notice from the IDF on Thursday morning, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotritch claimed that the Dahieh suburb of Beirut would “look like Khan Yunis” while touring communities along Israel’s northern border.<\/p>\n

“While on the Israeli side, communities are returning to flourish and thrive, very soon, Dahieh will look like Khan Yunis,” Smotritch wrote in a post to X. “Hezbollah made a mistake, and it will pay dearly for it.”<\/p>\n

“You wanted to bring hell upon us, but ended up bringing hell upon yourselves,” he said.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah sends elite fighters to fight Israeli troops, Lebanese sources say<\/p>\n

Hezbollah<\/a> has deployed elite fighters to confront the IDF in southern Lebanon, sending them back into the border region from which they withdrew in 2024, three Lebanese sources familiar with the deployments said.<\/p>\n

The fighters were deployed to southern Lebanon after the terror organization fired rockets and drones against Israel<\/a> on Monday, according to the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.<\/p>\n

Members of Hezbollah’s Radwan force had received orders to join the battle and block advances by Israeli tanks, the sources said, citing the town of Khiyam, one of several areas where Israeli troops reportedly advanced on Wednesday, as an example.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in a televised speech on Wednesday that the group would confront what he described as an Israeli plan of “occupation and expansion.”<\/p>\n

“For us, this is an existential defense,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon will be arrested, Reuters cited the Lebanese Information…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33437,42,86,1031,87,53065,21453,21452,88,47,71283,17514,43,157283,62597,40,38,41,39,2692],"class_list":{"0":"post-323419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-beirut","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-hezbollah","11":"tag-idf","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-irgc","14":"tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","15":"tag-israel-iran","16":"tag-lebanon","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-naim-qassem","19":"tag-nawaf-salam","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-operation-roaring-lion","22":"tag-radwan-forces","23":"tag-top-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topnews","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-visa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323419","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=323419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}