{"id":498828,"date":"2026-06-18T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498828\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:07:09","slug":"israeli-army-urges-government-to-preserve-freedom-to-strike-across-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498828\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army urges government to preserve freedom to strike across Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khaled Yousef<\/p>\n<p>18 June 2026\u2022Update: 18 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army has urged the government to preserve its freedom to conduct operations throughout Lebanon, maintain a buffer zone and pursue the disarmament of Hezbollah, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the army delivered what it described as an important message to Israel\u2019s political leadership regarding future military activity in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The move came just hours after the US and Iranian presidents signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The report claimed that the recent decline in Israeli strikes deep inside Lebanon is not the result of a policy change but rather the absence of clear instructions from political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe army does not know what is permitted and what is prohibited,\u201d it quoted military sources as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military\u2019s position appeared to contrast with provisions of the US-Iran understanding, which Iranian officials say include commitments to end military operations in Lebanon and respect the country\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>*Writing by Sahin Demir in Istanbul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khaled Yousef 18 June 2026\u2022Update: 18 June 2026 The Israeli army has urged the government to preserve its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-498828","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\/498828","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=498828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}