{"id":436204,"date":"2026-05-11T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436204\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:33:12","slug":"israeli-army-prepares-for-possible-expansion-of-lebanon-op-naharnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436204\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army prepares for possible expansion of Lebanon op \u2014 Naharnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  by Naharnet Newsdesk 11 May 2026, 14:45<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"W460\" class=\"picture\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778502792_72_w460.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">The Israeli army is &#8220;preparing to expand the ground operation in Lebanon, in light of Hezbollah&#8217;s ongoing violations,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s Channel 12 reported on Monday, three days before key Lebanese-Israeli talks in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">&#8220;The preparatory actions on the ground are intended to enable the political echelon to make a decision,&#8221; Channel 12 said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">&#8220;We are waiting for instructions and preparing accordingly in the field,&#8221; an Israeli army source told the channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">The third round of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon will take place in Washington on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">&#8220;Some of the operations are being carried out in areas where the IDF (Israeli army) is not permanently stationed, but are within the Yellow Line. As of this moment: 3 divisions are operating in Lebanon,&#8221; Channel 12 said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">An Israeli army source told the channel: &#8220;We are preparing for the possibility that the political echelon will give the green light to expand the operation in Lebanon, and are preparing accordingly on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Naharnet Newsdesk 11 May 2026, 14:45 The Israeli army is &#8220;preparing to expand the ground operation in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-436204","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\/436204","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=436204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}