{"id":491527,"date":"2026-06-13T23:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491527\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:22:11","slug":"israel-preparing-to-stop-ground-advance-against-hezbollah-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491527\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel preparing to stop ground advance against Hezbollah in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is preparing for the possibility that the pending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-899262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US-Iran agreement<\/a> will result in calls to stop the IDF ground advance against Hezbollah in Lebanon, KAN News reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>KAN cited Israeli security sources as saying that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-899227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a> is preparing to stop its deeper attacks into Lebanon to avoid harming the US-Iran deal, but will not withdraw from the security zone as part of that agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The sources also said that the issue of the IDF&#8217;s full withdrawal will be discussed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-899209\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon<\/a> during talks in Washington later in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF&#8217;s 36th Division has continued to push north in Lebanon, according to KAN, with some reports saying they have neared the large Lebanese city of Nabatieh.<\/p>\n<p>The military said that Nabatieh is an important <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-899149\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah<\/a> stronghold and the IDF, therefore, must seize the opportunity to reach the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">KAN noted that the IDF has limited its operations in Beirut due to the pending US-Iran deal. While sources reported Hezbollah had agreed not to fire upon northern Israeli communities, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office described the reports as &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel is preparing for the possibility that the pending US-Iran agreement will result in calls to stop the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,86,1031,87,46,88,43,40,38,41,39,2586],"class_list":["post-491527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491527","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=491527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}