{"id":389956,"date":"2026-04-13T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389956\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:00:06","slug":"israel-and-hezbollah-clash-in-strategic-lebanese-village-ahead-of-official-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389956\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Hezbollah clash in strategic Lebanese village ahead of official talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SFUW43N72ZAJLJEX2ZW2C57HVQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BEIRUT \u2014 Fierce fighting rocked the strategic southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil on Monday, as Israeli troops appeared to encircle the area while <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-war-995a8b2126eef9949beae3066715ce60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah militants<\/a> launched rockets and artillery in an effort to push them back.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SLNX7NGQ2JCUVJTM53WO2ZOOUQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The clashes in the hilly town that overlooks the U.N.-mandated Blue Line dividing the two countries just over 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away have intensified over the past week, after Iran and the United States agreed to a temporary truce. On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-9-2026-7760f88f183ed2a13a721057e31f3ce7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon and Israel&#8217;s ambassadors to the U.S.<\/a> are set to meet in Washington for an in-person meeting in a bid to kick off a landmark series of direct negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIRUT \u2014 Fierce fighting rocked the strategic southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil on Monday, as Israeli troops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159991,122,85,117780,46,3896,183815,43,121,126],"class_list":{"0":"post-389956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-military-and-defense","14":"tag-ml-lebanon-israel-hezbollah","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-war-and-unrest","17":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389956","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=389956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}