{"id":323497,"date":"2026-03-05T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323497\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:01:10","slug":"israel-steps-up-offensive-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323497\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel steps up offensive in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya Sharma<\/p>\n<p>03\/05\/2026March 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-text l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi sngcpkw w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">Lebanese state media say at least eight people have been killed as Israeli attacks enter a fourth day and ground troops push further into Lebanon. Airstrikes are also targeting Iran&#8217;s ally, the militant Hezbollah group.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/59sHt<\/p>\n<p>Israeli warplanes are striking targets in <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran\/t-18996175\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> and <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/hezbollah\/t-41508807\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah<\/a> positions in <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/lebanon\/t-19131661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon<\/a>, as Israel urges residents of Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs to evacuate. Ground forces push into southern Lebanon, which the UN calls a violation of Lebanese sovereignty. The escalation follows Hezbollah attacks in northern Israel. Hezbollah&#8217;s new leader says the group will keep fighting until <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-israel-war-with-iran\/t-76168615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli\u2011US attacks<\/a> stop and Israeli forces withdraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aditya Sharma 03\/05\/2026March 5, 2026 Lebanese state media say at least eight people have been killed as Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-323497","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\/323497","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=323497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}