{"id":395558,"date":"2026-04-16T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:16:12","slug":"roya-news-trump-aoun-discuss-lebanon-ceasefire-efforts-in-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395558\/","title":{"rendered":"Roya News | Trump, Aoun discuss Lebanon ceasefire efforts in phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A phone call took place on Thursday between US President Donald Trump and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, according to a statement by the Lebanese presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the call, President Aoun renewed his appreciation for the efforts Trump is making to reach a ceasefire in Lebanon and to secure lasting peace and stability,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump, in turn, expressed his support for President Aoun and Lebanon, emphasizing his commitment to responding to Lebanon\u2019s request for a ceasefire at the earliest possible time,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Aoun rejected a US request for a direct phone call with \u2018Israeli\u2019 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, an official source told Roya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lebanese president refused a direct call with Netanyahu and informed (US Secretary of State) Marco Rubio of this,&#8221; adding that &#8220;the American side was understanding&#8221;, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said Wednesday the &#8220;leaders&#8221; of the two countries would speak the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A phone call took place on Thursday between US President Donald Trump and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-395558","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395558","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=395558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}