{"id":407244,"date":"2026-04-23T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/407244\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:28:09","slug":"3-killed-as-israeli-airstrike-targets-car-in-southern-lebanon-ahead-of-us-hosted-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/407244\/","title":{"rendered":"3 killed as Israeli airstrike targets car in southern Lebanon ahead of US-hosted talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n<p>23 April 2026\u2022Update: 23 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli airstrike targeted a car in southern Lebanon on Thursday, killing three people, hours before US-hosted talks between Lebanon and Israel, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the fatalities were reported in the strike that hit the vehicle along a road linking Nabatieh and Shoukine.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes as Washington prepares to host a second round of ambassador-level talks later on Thursday in an effort to reach a peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The first round on April 14, the first talks in 43 years, resulted in a temporary ceasefire and an agreement to begin direct negotiations at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon is seeking to extend a US-announced 10-day ceasefire, which expires Sunday, that has been repeatedly violated by Israel, according to Lebanese officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rania Abushamala 23 April 2026\u2022Update: 23 April 2026 An Israeli airstrike targeted a car in southern Lebanon on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-407244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407244","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=407244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}