{"id":397770,"date":"2026-04-17T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/397770\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:18:09","slug":"live-updates-iran-opens-strait-of-hormuz-as-ceasefire-in-lebanon-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/397770\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran opens Strait of Hormuz as ceasefire in Lebanon holds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"gallery-9f0001\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            1 of 2\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A displaced woman with her son sleeps outside their tent as they wait for an official order from Hezbollah to return home in south Lebanon following the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/p>\n<p>            Read More<\/p>\n<p>            2 of 2\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Displaced family members pack their belongings as they prepare to return home following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/p>\n<p>            Read More<\/p>\n<p>            1 of 2\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A displaced woman with her son sleeps outside their tent as they wait for an official order from Hezbollah to return home in south Lebanon following the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/p>\n<p>            Read More<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>A displaced woman with her son sleeps outside their tent as they wait for an official order from Hezbollah to return home in south Lebanon following the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n<p>                                        Read More<\/p>\n<p>            2 of 2\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Displaced family members pack their belongings as they prepare to return home following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/p>\n<p>            Read More<\/p>\n<p>2 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Displaced family members pack their belongings as they prepare to return home following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n<p>                                        Read More<\/p>\n<p>In downtown Beirut, tents still line some areas as some families begin to leave, while others wait, weighing the risks of returning south.<\/p>\n<p>A tricycle piled with mattresses weaves through the camp, signaling the first departures after a fragile ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur homes in the south are gone, destroyed,\u201d said Ali Balhas, from Siddiqeen town in the Tyre province. \u201cIsrael is deceptive; you never really know its policies or how it will act toward people, as you know. I have six children here, and I can\u2019t leave that quickly. Once there is more safety, we will try to take the children and go back. But yesterday, by around midnight, the young men and most of the people had already reached al-Zahrani, so we will leave later, God willing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Amira Ayyash, a woman from Qaaqaiat al-Jisr in the Nabatiyeh province, decided to wait and assess the situation before returning home. \u201cWe do not know at what hour they might strike us, for they are treacherous. So we decided to take it slowly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 of 2\u00a0|\u00a0 A displaced woman with her son sleeps outside their tent as they wait for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,85,117780,46,47,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-397770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-iran-war","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397770","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=397770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}