{"id":499947,"date":"2026-06-18T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:57:09","slug":"israeli-envoy-reaffirms-commitment-to-us-backed-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499947\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli envoy reaffirms commitment to US-backed Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diyar Guldogan<\/p>\n<p>19 June 2026\u2022Update: 19 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said Thursday that Tel Aviv remains committed to a US-backed ceasefire agreement reached with Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Hezbollah does not violate the agreement, it will be kept,&#8221; Leiter said on the US social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Israel would maintain its right to act against attacks or perceived threats directed at the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under all circumstances, Israel retains its right to respond to attacks against it and to thwart threats to its territory, citizens and soldiers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he expects a \u201ccomplete ceasefire on all fronts\u201d shortly after the US and Iran signed a deal to end the Middle East war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect a complete Ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israel,\u201d Trump said on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been waging an offensive on Lebanon since March 2, killing 3,912 people, injuring 11,873 others and displacing more than 1 million, according to the latest official figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diyar Guldogan 19 June 2026\u2022Update: 19 June 2026 Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said Thursday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-499947","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\/499947","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=499947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}