{"id":480529,"date":"2026-06-07T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480529\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:55:09","slug":"deadly-israeli-strikes-hit-lebanon-as-middle-east-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480529\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Israeli strikes hit Lebanon as Middle East tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    Published on                 07\/06\/2026 &#8211; 8:23 GMT+2\u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     10:01\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>Two civilians were killed and 22 others wounded in a strike on the southern town of As-Saksakiyah, Lebanon&#8217;s Health Ministry said. The injured included three children and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, the Lebanese Army said three soldiers, including a brigadier-general, a captain and a private, were killed in what it described as an &#8220;aggressive and barbaric&#8221; strike carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military acknowledged hitting a vehicle carrying Lebanese military personnel and said it had opened an investigation into the incident. The IDF said the vehicle had been moving &#8220;suspiciously&#8221; towards its forces and that gunfire had been reported in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks came amid heightened regional tensions, as the conflict entered its 100th day since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Tehran on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is not in direct conflict with the Lebanese government, which remains involved in efforts to secure a ceasefire and ease tensions along the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 07\/06\/2026 &#8211; 8:23 GMT+2\u2022Updated 10:01 Two civilians were killed and 22 others wounded in a strike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,117780,14176,88,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-480529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran-war","tag-israel-iran-conflict","tag-lebanon","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\/480529","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=480529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}